There are many different approaches to the way sustainability is taught/learnt. The EFS (education for sustainability) swirl has the goal to to show how sustainability affects different areas such as; environmental, economic and socio-cultural and political. Each of these areas interconect and at the end of the swirl is a comment about all forms of sustainability relating to learning/teaching. THe EFS also provides ways affective sustainable learning can be achieved some ideas include; reflective thinking, future thinking, action orientated and cooperation/calibration.
The approaches taken in the Action Competance Model show the importance of student driven learning to achieve more passion on the subject, so instead of being told to do something the student should have the ability to come up with there own vision, plan and result. It focuses on changing the area we focus on from; what is wrong to what action we are going to take to change it. Our course follows this model well because it is up to us to develop what we do to show we understand the consepts of sustainability. I think this is a good idea because it allows people to be creative and use a learning style that suits them.