Guest Lecturer- Graham Allen

Graham Allen's lecture was based around sustainable Education, and the use of education to address the environment and developmental issues. This lecture was something different to the usual education lecture as it brought some more important living issues into the educational environment. Once again it was something that I was instantly drawn to and another part of education that I hadn't really heard about before hand. Graham Allen's presentation was also very interesting as he had a very dry sense of humor and his delivery was very entertaining and easy to listen to.
The basic idea of the lecture was to introduce the idea of education for sustainable development and encouraging its use for individuals to think for themselves and make their own personal opinions. It was also focusing on the education that is learned through life experiences and to value what we learn.
 He then went on to discuss corporate responsibility, another term that I am unaware of therefore was glad to learn about. This was explained through using different graphs and bullet points, it was also categorized into four different sections for Corporate Responsibility in the education sector: community, environment, marketplace and workplace.
 Graham then moved on to discuss the benefits of growth (once again something that I didn't really understand) and certain benefits for example creates employment, higher incomes and decreases poverty. He also went on to discuss the alternatives and lead on to the great depression and bullet points to what adds to the Great Depression including things like war, divorce and pollution.
He then moved back to education for sustainability to conclude the lecture, concentrating on the changes that have happened including different dates movements in education.
To summarise I felt that Graham Allen's lecture included several issues that I knew little about and perhaps I was unable to understand the majority as it was all crammed into one hour therefore I struggled to gather everything that was said.