Teaching for Sustainability

Teaching sustainability can never be only about the cognitive aspects, the "head" part, of learning. If we want students to fully engage with a topic, there need to be some aspects of both "heart" and "hands" involved, too. This is a super useful framework to think about our teaching -- which aspects are we currently engaging? And what might we want to do to engage also other aspects?

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.„ -- bell hooks My Pedagogy The challenges that face us are complex, …

In November 2023, we ran a workshop on using Serious Games in Teaching for Sustainability. Here, we give a short summary of that event

I am one of the people behind initiating this blog, and in this post I give you a quick idea about who I am and why I do what I do. This probably shines through in most things I write, but if you are curious about me, this is the place to start!

This blog is run by Lund University's Task Force on Education for Sustainability, coordinated by the Sustainability Forum in collaboration with the Division for Higher Education Development (AHU), and LTH Centre for Engineering Education (CEE), to share interesting ideas and articles, summaries of events, inspiration from our colleagues' courses, and much more with other teachers at Lund University and around the world, and ideally start discussions on those topics. We are excited to have you here and invite you to read and contribute to this blog!

This is the first official poster about our work and the vision we have for developing community

The relationship between supervisor and student is sacred – paving the way for a good outcome regarding time, effort, enjoyment, contribution, and learning for …

At this seminar, we learnt more about how to approach climate anxiety and eco-emotions in the educational setting. During the seminar, we discussed practices, available resources, needs, and wishes. The …