Tag: ESD
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When Time Flys By
The last few weeks have been some very busy teaching weeks. We are continuing our plans for the symposium on Sustainability Competencies in higher education that will be held at Umeå Univeristy in 2024. If you are interested in the event, send in an abstract of your project by the end of the month. On…
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A Flexible Space for Transforming Sustainability in Higher Education
This week we met with Judith Waller, lecturer at Mid-Sweden University, to listen to her experience of testing the sustainability competence mindset map tool with students on a new master program in Additive Manufacturing. The work she is doing to incorporate sustainability into the material is being designed on a student-centred basis for the present…
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A Call for the Symposium- Competence Building in Sustainable Development in Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Programs
This week we have been developing plans for the symposium that we are organising in collaboration with Professor Walter Leal and team at HAW Hamburg University and UTRI (a centre focusing on sustainability) at Umeå university. The symposium Competence Building in Sustainable Development in Undergraduate and Post-graduate programs will be held at Umeå University on…
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Inspirational Collaboration Week
This week we have been creating space for follow-up discussions and workshops to create inspiration for the next steps of the Sustainability Competence Mindset Mapping tool progress. First, we caught up with Jennifer Pohlmann, deputy head of FTZ NK, at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. As we listened to the experience Jennifer has had at…
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Autumn Term Begins: Communication across disciplines
Last week, our team presented the project on the other side of campus. An invitation of Tom Korsman offered us the opportunity to speak at a pedagogical seminar about our project with environmental scientists, ecologists, and geoscientists. We recognized that effective communication with students, as well as fostering meaningful connections across disciplinary boundaries, has posed…
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Challenges, Tools and Inspiration
Last week, we had the pleasure to be introduced to Jennifer Pohlmann, Deputy Head of the Research and Transfer Center for Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management, Head of Sustainability Unit and Senior Project Manager Digital Learning and Sustainability & Team Lead Office of Sustainability Services at Hamburg University. Jennifer told us about all the…
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Anticipatory and Futures Thinking for Sustainability: Imaginations, Constructions and Preparations
Steven Curtis, Pedagogical Developer at Lund University, joined us this week to discuss how we can support each other in our work with education for sustainability. His background experience in technology, including video, audio and web development as well as a large passion in education for sustainability will be a great contribution to our project.…
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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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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…