The newly formed UCD Library Green Group wanted to foster cross campus collaboration as they believed this would assist in realising their green goals. They saw the Learning Enhancement Project as a direct route to the student cohort who, motivated by their passion for the planet, would be willing to help the Library with this task.
Initiative
Developing sustainable futures together: taking a students-as-partners approach to evaluating ESD impact
About this initiative
This initiative seeks to establish a partnership between faculty and students to analyse, co-create and implement evaluation strategies which assess the effectiveness and impact of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) approaches across the curriculum. By engaging students as valued collaborators and partners, this initiative aims to generate rich, valuable data and insights into current approaches to ESD to enable continuous iterative enhancement foster a culture of shared responsibility for ESD through participatory evaluation empower students as active agents in shaping ESD within the curricula develop more authentic, relevant, and meaningful teaching, learning and assessment approaches that effectively enact the transformative potential of ESD These evaluation strategies will be of use to educators across the sector, demonstrating how diverse student representation can strengthen impact evaluation processes in teaching and learning while also providing a robust foundation for evaluating long-term transformative impacts of ESD.