Category: Our News
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Supporting Students and Teachers Learning Progression for Sustainability
We have had a good response from several study programs this week. The students have taken part in the first round of the questionnaire that helps to inform teachers about the student groups’ key sustainability competencies (KSC). The teachers that will have the students in the next module will be better prepared, since they can…
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A New Academic Year, New Possibilities!
Hello everyone and welcome back to our weekly update on the project Advancing Education For Sustainability. We have been taking some time to reconnect with the natural world by swims in the ocean and lakes, hikes in the countryside and going to a tortoise’s birthday party (she was 101 years old). Several strange and wonderful…
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Conference week
Last week, we presented our project at a conference for teachers in higher education. The conference was held in Stockholm and online this year. There were many opportunities to listen and discuss interesting topics about teacher didactics, the activities and instruction that is needed to work with a diverse range of students. The participants were…
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New ESD Workshop Series Comencing
Last week we were invited to take part in a workshop follow-up to a teacher in higher education course in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The idea was that all teachers that wanted to take part could discuss their own experiences and plans for advancing their ESD and build a network for ESD collaborations. In…
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Learning Progression Part 2: Instruction from above and below
This week we have been reflecting on what we have learnt so far about teacher support that exists and support desired. We have experienced several very engaged and supportive teachers for sustainability on our journey. While Gert-Olof and I planned for a teacher’s day together, we decided to conduct some interviews with our business school…
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Learning Progression Part 1: Assessment
Our first steps to help support teachers advance education for sustainability is to provide an assessment tool that can inform teachers about their students’ competence in sustainability before they come to class. While conducting this study we came across several different types of assessment tools that can be used to assess the key sustainability competencies.…
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Course and Program Development for Sustainability
For the past few months, I have been working with a group of lecturers in the Baltic region to develop a PhD candidate course in sustainability. The initiative is part of the PRME vision to improve education for sustainability in business schools. The aim of the project is to improve the education for sustainability at…
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The Language of Sustainability
There has been several conversations about language and the words chosen to convey information this week. The terms sustainability and sustainable development (Bolis et al. 2014) have created a discussion about right and wrong, weak and strong, growth and degrowth, sustainability and unsustainability (Wals, 2012) and many other binary oppositions. What is the opposite of…
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Living Labs, Conferences and more…
This week we gave a follow up presentation and discussion with the humanities faculty at Umeå University. The director of studies and program coordinators gave very encouraging support and a willingness to take part in our learning progression approach to education for sustainability. We also learnt about the continued ongoing work that the humanities faculty…
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Social Science Faculty: Working with sustainability learning progression
After a presentation of our project to the social science faculty’s study directors and program coordinators at Umeå University, several departments have shown a keen interest in our project package. The department of geography and the department of informatics have both asked to take part in our project package. The package includes a 3 minute…