Falmouth University

The Falmouth Curriculum Ladder for Sustainability - a novel curriculum design tool that informs sustainability embedding in curricula at scale

We have created a novel curriculum design tool, The Falmouth Curriculum Ladder for Sustainability (FCL-S), that facilitates embedding sustainability across curricula. 

Our tool uses a design thinking approach alongside impactful pedagogic methodology as its basis and has a dual function to inform and define embedding of sustainability education at scale and provides a way of measuring the degree of embedding as an indicator of success. 

The benefit in using the FCL-S approach is that curricula will also be improving employability and societal drivers by developing students as eco-responsible global citizens and in the constantly shifting scope of the employment landscape and enhancing sustainability knowledge and skills.

Top 3 Learnings

1. Finding specificity at scale:  embedding sustainability with disciplinary relevance.
2. Embedding sustainability for impact: learning gain in action.
3. Reinvigorating established HE procedures to better reflect sustainability.