Planning+for+Practice

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This component necessitates that students have a strong focus on caring for the environment as they develop capability to manage resources efficiently, and make ethical decisions around sustainable development. Ongoing reflection and evaluation of past practice is critical to this component, ensuring the exploration of their own and others’ values, and developing an understanding of how these values impact on decision-making. In order to work most effectively, ethically, and responsively, specific planning mechanisms need to be recognised as of value throughout the developmental work. When planning how to upgrade school toilets, students spent a lot of time exploring why their current toilets were not valued by the users, and in turn how misuse of them impacted on others’ views. A key aspect of developing a successful plan was that of incorporating a focus on educating the users on the impact of their actions, on others and the environment.

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