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
Woodwork for sustainability
About this initiative
The aim of this project was to build the capacity of DCU/IOE staff across early childhood and primary education to use woodwork as a sustainable STEAM practice. Woodworking with young children has an illustrious past but has fallen out of favour in recent times. Its adoption can counteract the current culture of “consume and dispose” by developing an understanding of the value of making and repairing. The project enabled DCU staff, students and wider community to understand the benefits of woodworking, the safety considerations and equipment requirements and how to source suitable free materials that would otherwise be discarded. In addition, the project aimed to support DCU staff and students to gain a practical understanding of woodworking; provide students the opportunity to apply their woodwork skills in placement, further disseminating ideas pertaining to woodwork for sustainability; and adopt woodworking practices across modules in undergraduate programmes in the IOE
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Initiative details
Funding programmes SATLE
Status
completedActivity type
lepAward year
2023End year
2025