Tag: ESD
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Art & Literature for Sustainability
We have had the pleasure of hosting Pierre Guillet de Monthoux from Stockholm School of Economics to discuss his passion of art and literature in different contexts. Pierre gave a lecture for USBE students and provided time to discuss projects and plans with our staff. We discussed our ideas about how art and literature can…
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A Student-Centered Approach To a Happy New Year
In this very snowy new year (at least here in Umeå), we welcome you all back to our project about advancing education for sustainability. Last year, we had visitors from 39 countries on all continents (except Antarctica) that show the interest for ESD is global. This year we will be developing ideas to encourage engagement…
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Happy Winter Break Everyone!
Happy holidays to all! As the winter holiday season approaches, we wanted to take a moment to thank you all for your participation in our project this year. From the inspiring conversations and acts of kindness to the moments of laughter and joy, we are grateful to have been a part of it all. This…
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A Virtual Living-Lab to Learn for Sustainability
Now that we have had more than a year of experience planning our platform, presenting our project and receiving great encouraging and valuable feedback from you all, we have reached out to technical advisors that can develop the platform further. The design of our platform has been inspired by our conversations about what you need…
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Learning For Sustainbaility and Gaining Knowledge About Sustainbility
This week we presented our project with an ESD group at KTH university. We had an interesting discussion about how the Sustainability Competence Assessment tool is designed and what type of competence it measures. The questionnaire uses scales already tested in the Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE) literature, which we discuss in our recently published…
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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…