Learning for Sustainability: Young people and practitioner perspectives (2023)

Commissioned by Scottish Government as part of the Learning for Sustainability 2030 Action Plan refresh. Through undertaking a series of World Café events and 3 Horizons focus groups across eight Scottish Local Authorities, this study investigated:

  • How LfS is understood and implemented by schools and CLD workforce
  • To learn from LfS ‘best practice’ taking place around the system
  • The voices of young people and practitioners to feed directly into LfS policy and the ‘refresh’ of the Action Plan
  • The successes and challenged LfS has faced since 2019; and
  • The impact of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) on LfS.

Project Team

  • Dr Kumara Ward
  • Rosamonde Birch
  • Tanya MacDonald
  • Dr Marie Beresford-Dey
  • Dr Liz Lakin
  • Dr Martin Purcell
  • Dr Beverley Searle

A series of 15 recommendations to aid the refresh are presented in the report.

Read the full report