Tag: Collaboration
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A Network to Share and Support ESD
Like cogs in a system, our ideas keep on moving and progressing forward each time we meet someone new. Thank you to everyone this week for your contributions, whether big or small. It feels like many of the innovations that have developed from this project are coming together bit by bit, as we move in…
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ESD Learning Progression Step 1: Assessment Validation (update)
Picture from department of applied physics and electronics at Umeå University
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Transforming Mindsets
Talking with an ESD group at Gothenburg University this week, we had some interesting discussions about how to transform mindsets towards ESD. There are many teachers who are engaged in ESD work at Gothenburg university across the campus. The ESD group that we talked with are working with teachers across all disciplines to help support…
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An Explosion of Engagement
We have had the pleasure this week to discuss the work of education for sustainability with different lecturers at Örebro University. One program coordinator told us about how they have been trying to integrate sustainability into the modules of a program by working with the sustainable development goals. They pointed out how they have experienced…
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Support For Shared Experience
This week Gert-Olof visited the FEKIS conference in Sweden to present our project. Experiences were shared and future participation was requested by fellow ESDers. A teacher reflected over the real-life work experience students participate in to learn from organisations connected to the discipline they major in on their study programs. The students are tasked with…
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Sustainability Change Challenge Projects
In a course for teachers I took at Gothenburg University we were tasked with a sustainability change challenge. We planned something we considered that we could actually do to change something for sustainability. My idea was to provide support for teachers to help everyone advance their education for sustainability. The project plans started with meetings…
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Designing a Virtual Learning Platform for ESD
We have been busy designing several workshops for upcoming events that will apply our Sustainability Competence Assessment (SCA). There are nine different universities in the Baltic region that have signed up to the workshops. At the universities involved with the Baltic University Group network, teachers are given a Sustainability Change Challenge assignment where the teachers…
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Great Aspirations
Our plans on how best to develop this platform so that we can provide the support everybody needs has begun to find assistance and inspiration in several different contexts. This week we met with different education professionals to discuss our plans, increase our network and to strengthen collaboration with other education organizations. One main point…
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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…
