When teaching for sustainability, we need to give students the chance to practice working with Wicked Problems (as many of us are already doing, …
Mirjam Glessmer
Page 1 / 3
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 …
Air pollution in the form of aerosol particles has a controlling effect on several of our major societal and environmental challenges. Exposure to air …
We invite you to join the (bring-your-own) lunch seminar on the topic, and/or to read this blog post to work through the reflection prompts and examples yourself.
The final meeting of the course "Teaching for Sustainability" at LTH tried out a new format: We invited critical friends from across LU to join us as critical friends for presentations and discussions, and it was an inspiring afternoon!
Where do we even start when we are thinking about including discussions related to sustainability in courses that are not explicitly about sustainability? Structural engineers Ivar and Jonas share their own approach, discuss some literature-based recommendations, and invite us into conversation!