Tag: pedagogical activities
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Two Years Later!
It has been about two years since we started this site and the work is progressing well. Thank you to all the frequent and new commers to the site and the great energy that is provided in the sustainability education community. We look forward to meeting you soon at the symposium and creating great dialogue…
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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 Student-Centreed Appraoch: Bouncing to a Different Sounding-Board Beat
Have you heard of Robert McKim’s (Professor Emeritus of Stanford’s Department of Mechanical Engineering) 30 circle creativity challenge?
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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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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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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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Welcomed Feedback From Fellow ESDers
Picture taken from presentation by Arjen Wals-Unlearning Unsustainable Behaviour