This coming September Barbara Barrow and myself (Ellen Turner) will be teaching the 3-credit interdisciplinary course, Poetry, Sustainability, and Change. This course is one …
Teaching for Sustainability-initiative
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At the end of February, IIIEE, together with partners from around the EU launched a new massive open online course (MOOC) 1.5° Lifestyles: everyday …
When teaching my students about climate change, biodiversity loss, plastic pollution or other pressing global sustainability problems, I usually start with the notion of …
As educators, how can we support students in developing skills to facilitate and engage in constructive conversations around social change? Large-scale social simulations ("megagames") …
Publicerad av Aftonbladet 7/2 2025: 163 universitetsanställda ställer sig bakom studenters krav att påskynda förändringen av högre utbildning så att studenterna som medborgare och …
If you are interested in Teaching for Sustainability, this blog post is for you. Last week I had the honor to go as a student representative to a workshop which discussed the critical question: what is the future sustainable university look like, and how do we reach it? What is the role of the university, and what is the role of the students? After an intense and inspiring day of workshopping, students and teachers alike wrote an to the headmasters of the universities in Sweden which declared what change we want to see in order for the universities to show their devotion to the sustainability goals and how to teach for the sustainable future.
What clash? Carbon emissions must not exceed 2 tons carbon per capita by 2030 to stay within 1.5 degrees of warming, which is at …
Our previous experiences with teaching for, or even about sustainability, is very limited. It has often been something on the periphery, something we knew …
The rising concerns around sustainability have led to the urgent need to update higher education curricula with sustainability-related knowledge and skills. Among the various …
Teaching for and about sustainability is more than teaching the subject matter. New students often arrive at university with very black-and-white thinking; ideas are …