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Whakawhitinga K?rero: Interdisciplinary education on the SDGs through placebased video production

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Project description

The learning and teaching resource, Whakawhitinga k?rero: Dialogues on sustainability, entails a series of videos that introduce the SDGs as they relate to local and global sustainability challenges, with a prioritisation on addressing the place-based context. The SDGs function as the framework for the videos where they reinforce the inherent interdisciplinarity and interconnectivity of broad-reaching sustainability concepts � from poverty to climate action, and from gender equality to the requisite partnership for the goals themselves. Each video centres on one-to-two specific SDGs, and these are addressed via dialogue between university staff, alumni, and local business and government representatives from across fields and sectors.

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Location New Zealand

Organization Victoria University of Wellington

Project aims

This resource was developed in response to the need to educate students in holistic concepts of sustainability while encompassing diverse perspectives and that reflect regionally and culturally-significant sustainability issues.

Project outcome

Critical success factors include increased engagement (attributed to local context and video format), critical thinking (attributed to application of associated reflective assessment journal task), and supported understandings of interconnectedness (attributed to video dialogue content and animated content). Since being trialled, the resource has been made accessible to the whole university community.