“Teaching for Sustainability” is a course run at the Centre for Engineering Education at LTH. The goal is to provide teachers who want to develop their teaching on sustainability with the opportunity to discuss and collaborate with peers on the topic, and to document their shared reasoning. This could include developing whole courses, course modules or other ways to include aspects of sustainability in any course.
The main component of the course is a project carried out in a small group, addressing a teaching issue of relevance to the participants. The project is reported orally and in writing during the course and is to be of a quality that makes it suitable for reading by other teaching staff at Lund University. In addition to the project, the course consists of scheduled seminars intended to support the work on the report. Literature studies of relevance to the project are also included.
The course corresponds to 2 weeks full-time work, most of which happens self-organised outside of the scheduled course meetings below:
- 1 September 9:00 -16:00
- 2 September 9:00 -16:00
- 16 September 9:00 -16:00
- 4 December – Presentation at LTH Pedagogical Inspiration Conference, time slots will be set by conference committee later
This round of the course will be co-taught by me (Mirjam Glessmer) and Robert Kordts, with a cohort of participants at the University of Bergen (UiB), Norway. I have taught this course for the last 3 years and have shared many thoughts about the course itself and related reading on my personal blog. I have also just run an interview study with teachers at LTH about how they have implemented sustainability aspects in their teaching and what challenges they have overcome or are still facing. So I am hoping that this course will be useful both in terms of the theoretical foundation as well as the context-specific practicalities!
With Robert Kordts, we gain an excellent and inspiring co-teacher with a lot of experience in both educational development and climate activism, and with the UiB participants, we are bringing in an international perspective and opportunities for cross-Nordics cooperations. To make this setup work smoothly, we are doing most of the course meetings online, except for some additional meetings at agreed-upon dates and times if wished, and the last meeting, where you will present your projects in person in a special session at the LTH Pedagogical Inspiration Conference.
Look at blogposts about previous rounds of this course here and register for fall 2025 here! You are also welcome to contact me for any questions you might have.
