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Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): An Asia Pacific Forum, 20 - 21 January 2009

Joint Event by Education bureau, UK Trade & Investment and the Kadoorie Institute, University of Hong Kong

Background

Education for Sustainable Development applies to all aspects of education; the environment is facing new challenges and how can school-based provision address this rapid growing concern around the world? What are the Management Strategies and resources that can support ESD.

The event is aiming to provide a unique platform of knowledge and information exchange on the latest development in ESD both from Hong Kong and the UK with inputs from experts around the region.

The two days’ forum is comprised of Conferences, Seminars and Workshops to be led by Hong Kong and UK experts, including a panel with delegates around the region. Thus providing ample opportunities to learn and share strategies, visions and development for schools and educators in order to meet the diverse and complex needs for the environment which we live and learn. In addition, an Exhibition will showcase a range of books, softwares and references on ESD.

For a profile on Speakers at this event, please scroll down the page.

Event Date

20 and 21 January 2009

Venue

Day 1:

The Senate Room, 10/F, Knowles Building
The Main Campus, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong

Day 2:

Kadoorie Institute, Shek Kong Campus
Lam Kam Road, Shek Kong, yuen Long, New Territories
Free coach to depart from University of Hong Kong and Kowloon Tong MTR station.

Target Audience

  • Education policy makers
  • Teachers, curriculum leaders and EE (Environmental Education) co-ordinators
  • Heads and Deputy heads of schools
  • Academics
  • NGOs
  • Suppliers of sustainable school products and resources, including school planners and architects

Objectives

  • To be informed on the latest development in ESD both Hong Kong and the UK also to bring in experiences shared from regional participants 
  • To learn more about the strategies in school-based provisions for ESD 
  • Have the opportunity to meet the ESD counterparts from the UK for sharing of experience and
  • Be introduced to ESD information, references and resources from the UK

Event Format

The forum will present topics in educational policy, practice and products to foster awareness and knowledge to contribute to a future that is more sustainable. It aims to provide a unique platform of experience and information exchange between the participants. It combines:

  • Keynote Conference on frameworks of ESD; 
  • Seminars and Workshops on practical teaching solutions, cases or latest development to issues relating to ESD (school design/strategy/practice) for practitioners; 
  • An exhibition showcasing a wide range of books, softwares and references on ESD.

Event Programme

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Registration

Admission is free and by registration only. Please email us for Registration forms. Places are limited and are on a first-come-first-served basis. Please return the form by 14 January 2009. A registration number will be given for confirmation. Please bring the number for registration on the day of the event and for redemption of the Certificate of Attendance. Certificates of Attendance will be awarded for CPD. 8 hours CPD will be awarded upon completion on each day.

Special Arrangements for Bad Weather

  • The conference for the morning session will be cancelled when Typhoon Signal No.8 or above is hoisted or the Black Rainstorm Warning Signal is issued at or after 6:30 am. 
  • The conference for the afternoon session will be resumed when Typhoon Signal No.8 or above or Black Rainstorm Warning Signal is cancelled at or before 11:30 am. Otherwise, the conference for the afternoon session will continue to be cancelled. 
  • Participants will be notified for further arrangements in due course.

Car Park Arrangement

No car parking will be provided at the Main Campus University of Hong Kong. There are public car parks nearby. Please refer to the site map below for locations of nearby car parks.

Day 2 - There are no public car parks nearby and for the interests of the environment, please take public transport to the Shek Kong Campus.

Public Transport and Free Shuttle Bus Service

Free shuttle bus service is available to the conference venue in Shek Kong. The pick up of coach transport will be provided from:
8:30am Day 2 21 January  2009
Main Campus, University of Hong Kong, pick up from West Gate – Pokfulam Road Entrance
Kowloon Tong MTR Exit, pick up from Kent Road
The site map below will direct you how to get there.

Site Map

CPD Hours

Certificates of Attendance will be awarded to participants of the Conference. 8 CPD hours will be awarded upon completion each day.

Event Organisers

The Education for Sustainable Development Forum is jointly organised by the Education Bureau, the Kadoorie Insitute at the University of Hong Kong, and UK Trade & Investment Section at the British Consulate-General Hong Kong.

Speakers' Profile

Prof William Scott
University of Bath

William Scott is a Professor of Education at the University of Bath in the UK where he is head of its Education and Sustainability research programme, director of the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment, and a deputy-director of the University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment.  He was founding editor of the journal Environmental Education Research, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and chair of the community interest company South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition.  

William Scott’s research focuses on the role of learning in sustainable development, on the contributions that educational institutions can make to this, and on the problems of researching the effectiveness of such activities.  Of particular interest are:

  • conceptual issues to do with the nature of education and professional development;
  • pedagogical and evaluative issues about processes of learning and teaching; and 
  • ethical questions about the focus and limits of such interventions

These issues are addressed through research, consultancy, development and evaluation studies, through teaching, and through writing and reviewing, and William Scott has worked closely with research councils, government, industry, NGOs and other agencies in the UK and in other countries.

Jim McManners OBE
Principal, Cassop Primary School

Jim McManners began teaching forty years ago in a large Primary School in a mining town in Co Durham. His background is in biology and from the beginning of his teaching career he involved children in fieldwork and outdoor leaning creating what was probably the first school Nature Reserve on two acres of reclaimed pit heap. He moved after five years to become a Deputy Head teacher and for the last 30 years has been Head teacher of Cassop Primary School. Three years seconded to the National Oracy Project, he served on several National Curriculum bodies looking at Speaking and Listening, assessment and curriculum planning in small schools.

Environmental work continued to be his passion and in 1998 he received The Tetra Pak award for Environmental Education. In 2000 Cassop became the first wind powered school in the UK as sustainability became a major concern. Since then the school attempted to weave sustainability into it's being, gaining along the way several national awards, the Ashden Award (for renewable energy use) and The first National Teaching Award for sustainable schools in 2007. The school now houses a Sustainability Centre within the school building and Jim works with visiting schools and their teachers from the North East region.

The school's work features within the government's "Securing The Future" Sustainable schools strategy and as a case study in the QCA materials.

In 2006 he was awarded an OBE for services to education.

Ms LAU Sau Yin
Principal, Queen Elizabeth School Old Students' Association Secondary School

Ms Lau serves many roles in the Education for Sustainable Development in Hong Kong. She is the Convenor, Education for Sustainable Development Programme Task Group of the Caretakers of the Environment International (Hong Kong Branch), a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Independent Commission Against Corruption Moral Education Periodical; Executive Committee of Yuen Long District Secondary School Heads Association. Ms Lau was the Ex-chairperson on the Organisation Committee of the 21st Youth Conference of the Caretakers of the Environment International. Before that, she was a former Newspaper Column Writer in Ming Pao.

Topic of presentation: The Path of Promoting Education for Sustainable Development: a Hong Kong Case

Prof. Bernard Lim
Principal, AD + RG Architecture Design and Research Group Ltd
Professor (fract. Appoint) Department of Architecture, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Prof Lim has been an elected Architects Registration Board Member and has been a Council Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA) for many years.

He was elected as Election Committee Member(Architectural, Surveying and Planning sector) in 2007; appointed member of Energy Advisory Committee and Antiquities Advisory Board in 2005; member of Town Planning board in 2004; elected President of the HKIA 2005-06.

He has established professional specialization/ research in areas of (A) Institutional, Educational, and Elderly Care Facilities; (B) Energy efficient and Sustainable designs, and (C) Community Participatory Planning and Workshops. Recent project with HKIA Annual Awards included Architectural Research on “Quality of Life for Public Housing with Emphasis on Health and Safety issue” 2006; "VICE VERSA Hong Kong, China Exhibition at Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition, 2006" AD+RG with VICE VERSA Exhibition Team (Members' Work Outside of Hong Kong), and projects with tertiary institutions. His designs have also been awarded the Energy Efficient Building Award by the HKSAR Government.

Topic of presentation : The Hong Kong Community College (Hung Hom Bay Campus) - a case study in sustainability in campus design

Prof John Malpas
Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Hong Kong

Professor John Malpas was first appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor in December 2000 with the portfolio of planning and resources. Until recently, his main duties related to the coordination of strategic planning for the University's future development. Professor Malpas had oversight of the development, formulation and implementation of the University's Strategic Plan and the coordination of Faculty Development Plans. His responsibilities included fiscal and human resources planning and allocation in the University and management information. Whilst still responsible for University-wide medium to long-term strategic projects, since September 2004, Professor Malpas has also taken up responsibility for campus planning and development, and health and safety issues.

Topic of presentation : HKU's Centennial Campus Development and Sustainability

Mr Martin Mayfield
Sustainability Consultant, Arup

Mr Mayfield is leader of the Building Services team within Arup Yorkshire and Director of the Sheffield office. He has eighteen years experience covering design and management of multi-disciplinary projects in the United Kingdom for both public and private sector clients.

Martin leads a specialist Sustainable Design Group working across a number of sectors to deliver low carbon and low ecological footprint solutions. He has been active in promoting the development of sustainable building design, in particular the drive for carbon neutrality in construction.

Martin sits on the Further Education/RIBA Client forum with special responsibility for Sustainable Design.

He is currently advising the Learning Skills Council on how to define and achieve sustainable design targets and has provided government funded training and workshops on how to deliver low carbon buildings.

He has specialised in the design of low carbon buildings. He also has particular interest in the life cycle costing, and has experience in the detailed evaluation of life cycle costing models including financial modelling and sensitivity analyses.

Topic of presentation : A sustainable Educational Campus : UK Case Study

Dr Eric Po Keung Tsang
Chairman of the Green Power
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Dr Tsang is an environmental scientist, specialising in environmental education research and was one of the pioneers in the Green School initiative. Dr Tsang was appointed visiting professor by the Northeast Normal University and South China Normal University and also as the founding director of the Hong Kong and Guang Zhou Centre for Environmental and Science Education in South China Normal University. In promoting the exchange of ideas on education for sustainability, he served as the director in organising three international conferences which were held in various cities of Mainland China. Dr Tsang is active in the community and has been appointed as chairman of the Green Power, a major green group in Hong Kong. He also served as member of numerous government committees and funding bodies such as the Environment and Conservation Fund, Waste Recovery Project vetting committee for vetting of research applications.

Topic of presentation : Current status of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Hong Kong and Mainland China

Mr Rochester Wang Fai Wong
Senior Curriculum Development Officer, Curriculum Development Institute, Education Bureau, HKSARG

Mr Wong is responsible for the development of secondary school Geography curriculum in Hong Kong. He has also been one of the key developers of the school environmental education programme in Hong Kong since 1996, in particular within the subject scope of Geography and other social sciences and humanities subjects. He is now the co-ordinator of the Institute to liase and work with different government departments and non-government organisations in the development and implementation of environmental education in Hong Kong.

Topic of presentation: Development of Environmental Education in Hong Kong

Regional Speaker - Thailand

Dr Mark Hensman

Dr Hensman is the Executive Head Master of Harrow International School Bangkok and is soon to take up a new post with Harrow Asia as the Executive Head Maser of the Harrow Asia group of schools and COO of Harrow Asia Management Services Ltd.

Dr. Hensman is currently Chairman of the Federation of British International Schools of South and East Asia (FOBISSEA), a Vice Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce, Vice Chairman of the Royal Overseas League Thailand, and until recently, Secretary General of the International Schools Association of Thailand (ISAT).

Panel discussion topic : Greening Harrow

People are finally catching on to the fact that global warming is finally catching up with us. Schools have a crucial part to play in the response. Going Green - Initiatives at Harrow Bangkok started when Secondary students participated in seminars led by the Head Master on their first day back at school last year. Subsequent to this introduction, a series of initiatives have occurred including, Green Birthdays, Green Machine, Green Technologies, Green Projects, Green Productions, Green Education and Greening Up.

Mr Gurmit Singh
Chairman, Centre for Environment, Technology & Development, Malaysia (CETDEM)

Mr Gurmit is the founder and the Executive Director of CETDEM in Malaysia. He is an environmentalist, social activist and engineer who has been in the environmental field for over 20 years. He served a number of presidential and strategic positions such as the founder-president for the Environmental Protection Society; Member of the Environmental Quality Control; Climate Action Network, Southeast Asia and Malaysian Climate Change Group. Mr Gurmit received many awards in his work including the Langkawi Award in 1993 and the Sustainable Consumer Award from the Malaysian Government in 2008.

Topic of Presentation : Region Panel Session

School Visits

Option 1 :- Energy conversation - DIY from teachers and students

Po Leung Kuk Yao Ling Sun College
No. 3 Estate Secondary School,
Shek Wai Kok Estate, Tsuen Wan, New Territories

ESD (Energy) Policy
Po Leung Kuk Yao Ling Sun College is a full-scale 29 classes government-subsidized secondary school — a standard estate school. The school is shielded on two sides with high-rise public housing estate — under the shade half day and also a lack of natural ventilation across classrooms. A third side faces a busy slope road and the remaining side to our own playground — implying noise pollution throughout the day. Air-conditioning is the biggest drain of electric power during summer. In 2004, we hit HK$53,000 electric bill in one summer month. We started to study into energy saving measures.

We built our own campus-wide energy saving system in 2004-2005, primarily to stop wasting energy like running air-conditioners in empty rooms, leaving air-conditioners on overnight throughout a long weekend, etc. We train pupils towards reasonable use of classroom air-conditioners at ambient temperature above 28C or over 85% relative humidity. We ban demanding cooler room in summer yet having pullovers on while sweating, etc. (not without disappointments). By all these measures, we limited the electricity bill to HK$40,000 for two peak summer months.

We insist educating pupils to make good use of energy resources, let them try to generate electricity manually on our locally built experimental bicycle generator, let them participate in energy-saving campaigns, let them contribute their effort in patterning renewable generators, etc. We do have success stories to tell. We think our school is situated on a wind path for the prevalent north-easterly wind in winter and the occasional reversed low pressure driven southerly stormy wind in summer.  We are in good position to educate pupils of variable factors related to issues about renewable energy generation, and hence a living topic towards popular science education for all.

Option 2 :- Whole School Engagement

Tin Shui Wai Catholic Primary School
28 Tin Pak Rd, Tin Shui Wai,
Yuen Long, New Territories

Environmental Sustainability Education (ESE)

We strongly believe that everyone can be an outstanding manager of the Earth and that one of the major goals of education is to protect the environment. Consequently, we have implemented a holistic and cross-disciplinary curriculum with extended authentic learning tasks to embed the positive value of environmental sustainability in the hearts of pupils and to develop proper behaviour in their daily life.

We have applied Task-based Learning (TBL), Concept-based Learning (CBL) as well as Life Incident approaches in our curriculum. There are four major areas in our school-based environmental sustainability curriculum (ESC). These are economic sustainability, social sustainability, cultural sustainability and ecological sustainability. We have also implemented legal education in our ESC so as to provide all-round learning experiences for learners. We have provided authentic learning experiences for stakeholders and kindergarten children in our organic farm in order to promote the practice of environmental sustainability development in the community.  

Option 3 :- School Management and Building an ESD Community Cluster

Baptist Wing Lung Secondary School
Phase II, 6A, Ho Hing Circuit,
Tuen Mun, New Territories

Our school strives to promote environmental education. In order to arouse the awareness of environmental protection among our students, our school has organized various activities by which students have become more concerned about the well-being of the globe. We have implemented school-based environmental education lessons in the curriculum of junior forms. It provides opportunities for students to explore the issues related to local sustainable development. Aiming at building up a green school network in our community, we work as a partner with some primary schools to implement environmental education in their schools. The effort and achievements of our school are widely recognized. Owing to our contribution, we have won School Honours Award under Schools Environmental Award Scheme for 5 consecutive years. We have gained the honour of “Green School”.

Enquiries

Ms May Shek, British Consulate-General, Tel: 2901 3147, Email: commercial@bcg.org.hk

Ms Connie Wu, Education Bureau, Tel : 2892 6654, Email: conniewu@edb.gov.hk

 



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