Curriculum_Review_2

[|Sustainable Design and Technology Education Resources:][| "Textiles and Sustainability"] [|A Practical Action STEM Challenge]


 * The organization that developed this curriculum module was Practical Action, a development charity based in the UK that works in over 40 developing countries. Founded by philosopher and economist E.F. Schumacher and others under the name of the Intermediate Technology Development Group in 1965, Particle Action's vision of "technology justice" is to contribute to the wellbeing of poor folks by using technology to foster capabilities of the poor, provide access to technologies, and improve economic, institutional, and social systems for innovation and technology use. Technology justice describes a vision of "a sustainable world free of poverty and injustice in which technology is used for the benefit of all."
 * There are many lessons with different learning outcomes. The lessons provide information that addresses a number of EcoEd literacy goals: 1) understand how textiles influence health and wellbeing of people and oneself, 2) reflect on their own clothing and its placement the larger textile industry at a, 3) transnational scale. 4) Posit and work towards alternative ways of textile production this is done through both design activities and information about fair trade and sustainable production practices. 5) Conceptualize health issues through global causation and correlation.
 * I do think that there is a nice collection of activities that relate directly to students lives - research your own t-shirt. This makes thinks concrete for the students and enables them to continue thinking about suitability as they move through the world, shopping for new cloths. At the same time a lot of the curriculum is missing some fundamental pieces that teachers would need to have a full lesson plan. The lessons seem to be more of a suggestive nature in giving the teacher a good idea that needs much more resources included in it to maximize itseffectiveness on students.