Did you attend the Grand Seminar on "Exploring the complexities and potentials of environmental communication", organised by LU Sustainability Forum, BECC and MERGE? If …

Before we get into the how of assessing key competencies for sustainability, let's first look at the why (other than that is part of …

When teaching for sustainability, we need to give students the chance to practice working with Wicked Problems (as many of us are already doing, …

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!

The structures we use for discussions have an influence both who speaks and who gets heard. Using structures where everybody is included and where ideas can be evaluated independently of who had them contributes to a more inclusive environment in which a wider range of perspectives is considered and solutions are improved. Here are two examples of such "Liberating Structures"

There are many factors that make it difficult to have conversations about sustainability. In this blogpost, I present the "Spiral of Silence" model, based on work by Crease & Singhasaneh (2023), that shows many of those factors

On February 13th, we met with the Task Force to update everybody on our efforts, get feedback, brainstorm ideas, and plan future events. Read more about it here!

Teaching for sustainability does not necessarily mean that we explicitly address content or skills related to sustainability. It can also, or additionally, mean that we teach in ways where we invite all students to participate and to personally connect to the topic. Here is a summary of an article (very much recommended reading in the original!!!) that gives 21 easy tips for how to do that

“Teaching sustainability” is a course that aims at providing 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 ways to include aspects of sustainability in any course. Join us! :-)