{"id":416,"date":"2012-10-01T15:57:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T04:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/rural-health\/?p=416"},"modified":"2012-10-01T15:57:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T04:57:44","slug":"sustainability-module-subject-of-lecture-to-lecturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2012\/10\/01\/sustainability-module-subject-of-lecture-to-lecturers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability module subject of lecture to lecturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_417\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-417\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-417\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/files\/2012\/10\/Marg-Simmons.jpg\" alt=\"Marg Simmons\" width=\"150\" height=\"188\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marg Simmons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr Marg Simmons has addressed lecturers in the Monash Sustainability Institute on a new module used for Year A graduate medical students at Gippsland Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>Marg gave a presentation called Teaching Health and Sustainability to lecturers at Clayton on the module which introduces the students to the topic of Sustainability and Health.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation was part of the Education for Sustainability (EfS) Module for academic staff undertaking the Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice and was based on her work on introducing a module on sustainability. The module explores issues such as sustainability in the healthcare profession; the impacts a changing environment might have on society and the health care system; and the notion of healthy and sustainable communities.<\/p>\n<p>Monash University is very committed to sustainability in all of its practices &#8211; as reflected by its inclusion in the university&#8217;s mission statement &#8211; and is therefore keen that its staff embed sustainability across the board as well incorporating innovative teaching approaches to fulfil this endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Geoff Rose, who led the EfS module, commented that such teaching &#8220;exemplifies the tactical approach to education renewal which Marg sees as critically important to embedding sustainability in all education programs at Monash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cParticipants at the presentation found your presentation to be very valuable and I believe it will be very influential in motivating them to embark on a similar journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Marg Simmons has addressed lecturers in the Monash Sustainability Institute on a new module used for Year A graduate medical students at Gippsland Medical School. Marg gave a presentation called Teaching Health and Sustainability to lecturers at Clayton on the module which introduces the students to the topic of Sustainability and Health. The presentation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2012\/10\/01\/sustainability-module-subject-of-lecture-to-lecturers\/\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,2081,1581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}