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 …
The initiative Teaching for Sustainability is intended to serve as a hub for educators at Lund University, offering a platform for training, resources, and …
Terese reports on Fredrik Strid’s exhibition "Making Nature" and how it can be used in teaching for sustainability. [Featured image: Fredrik Strid, Alla fåglar i Sverige (detalj), 2018–2024. Foto: Emma Krantz/Skissernas Museum]
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!
Ester Barinaga invited colleagues interested in using serious games in teaching for sustainability to try a new-to-us game to assess whether to use it in her course. In this guest post, she describes the experience.
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
In this guest post, Anna Nohed describes her experiences developing and testing a serious game for sustainability and shares her reflections.