Category: Our News
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Welcoming Communities Near and Far: Art for Transforming
Last week we begun a dialogue with Kristina Sehlin-Macneil and Charlotta Svonni at Várdduo, the centre for Sami research at Umeå University. We are investigating how, what and why different communities facilitate education for sustainability to learn about education systems from different perspectives. We are also specifically interested in how art helps to facilitate education…
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Course and Program Development for Sustainability: Part 2
Jesper Nordén, program coordinator at a Swedish gymnasium school (year 10-12) in Borås, reached out for advice about our perspectives of what is important for pre-university education regarding economics and entrepreneurship. We were invited to a meeting with several different teachers at the school who also teach in languages and creative arts. The program development…
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International Network, Collaborations and Inspiration for Student Engagement
It was great to catch up with Tony Wall, Professor at Liverpool John Mores University, to have a dialogue about our collaborations and project plans. We are developing a hackathon event together with several international participants to create inspiring support about teaching activities for teachers of education for sustainability. The event will take place on…
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The Art of Listening Didactics
Back in 2015 I came across Otto Scharmer’s course about Theory-U at the presenting Institute at MIT. Exploring the mindset through presenting techniques provided some interesting reflections that inspired great dialogues with my colleagues. However, my journey has taken me elsewhere since and it had been a while since I had reflected on the ideas…
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Sharing a Passion for Support
We met with a new international group, led by Kent Williams assistant professor at Rowe Business School Dalhousie University, to collaborate on the creation of a workshop to generate new possibilities in transformation of education for sustainability. The group shared passions for the work we are doing and the lives we are living (many food…
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Digging Deeper into the Decolonisation of Higher Education Systems
In the last couple of weeks, I have had the pleasure to join a group of higher education lecturers that will be discussing didactics in education for sustainability. In Sweden, hosted by Karlstad University, there are several universities that have collaborated to create an online course for lecturers to take part in this opportunity. We…
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The Whole Student Approach as Global Citizens
We have continued our dialogue with Dr. Jos Eussen again this week, who very kindly introduced us to a project in Helsingborg Council, in Sweden. The education department has been working with ways to advance education for sustainability in Gymnasium schools (six-form college or years 12 & 13 for UK residents/ high-school for US residents).…
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Empowering Mindset Transformation
At the moment, I am working with a new team of teachers to be a part of developing a new course about global challenges on a new program we have at our business school. In my talks with different lecturers who have experience teaching in different universities in different countries, most disclose difficulties when trying…
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Best Paper Award
At the European Symposium for Sustainability in Business Education, Research and Practice we won Best Paper award for our Sustainability Competence Assessment Validation paper. We are very grateful for the recognition and are looking forward to taking part in future collaborations with the participants at the symposium. The inspirational ideas that emerged from this group…
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European Symposium on Sustainability in Business Education, Research and Practices
We just got back from Liverpool where we presented our project and met some fantastically inspiring and engaging ESDers. You will have to excuse the length of this blog item; we found it hard to choose what to leave out. There were so many other presentations that have not been included in the blog today,…