Meet the Task Force on Education for Sustainability and read about the most pressing issues and upcoming events that we discussed at our most recent meeting! If you are interested in engaging with us, our next meeting will take place on November 18.
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 …
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!
In the face of increasing conflict and uncertainty, there is a growing movement within and beyond the academy to assess the current assumptions underlying …
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.