LfS Scotland now has over 600 members and actively promotes education for sustainable development, or as they call it, Learning for Sustainability (LfS). When LfS reaches its fullest potential it is a transformative experience, changing the understanding of our place and interactions in the world. It is a developing field and the form learning must adopt to reach its full transformative potential is not yet fully understood.
Learning for Sustainability Scotland supports the the movement in the following ways:
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A Learning for Sustainability blog - a place to read critical viewpoints and challenging opinion pieces from a range of forward thinking practitioners and academics in and around the learning for sustainability community.
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Free monthly bulletin (covering news and events from LfS Scotland, events and dates for your diary, courses and workshops, resources for schools, funding and news, RCE global network news, policy and research, careers, spotlight and photo of the month).
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Weekly news platform.
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Popular programme of professional development events, seminars and workshops.
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Mapping opportunities for learning for sustainability in Scotland.
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Providing policy advice to the Scottish Parliament on Taking Action on Learning for Sustainability.
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Annual reporting (see the 2015 Annual Report).
- Reports including - 'Reflecting on the Emergence of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Call for Action in Scotland, 2016'.
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Task Groups - groups of members who come together around a common theme to work collaboratively: