Kirsty Dunnett on Galløe (2023)’s “emotions differentiate opportunities”
My most loyal guest poster strikes again! Welcome Kirsty Dunnett, today writing about Galløe (2023)’s chapter on how emotions differentiate opportunities.
Tag: emotions
Using eco-guilt to motivate behaviour change seems not really supported by literature
Following up on what I wrote on Friday about how my colleague respond to her talking about sustainability issues with “don’t make me feel guilty”, I am exploring eco-guilt as…
Thinking about how to respond when people say “Don’t talk to me about sustainability, you make me feel guilty!”
Today one of my colleagues told me that a very common reaction she gets in her department is that people do not want to talk to her about sustainability because…
Thinking about Maria Weurlander’s seminar on “When learning becomes difficult: Emotional challenges in education”
Yesterday I was one of those annoying people on their laptop during a seminar, taking notes during Maria Weurlander’s presentation on “When learning becomes difficult: Emotional challenges in education”, and…
Playing with Microsoft Reflect, “a well-being app to support connection, expression, and learning”
Yesterday, a colleague pointed me to Microsoft Reflect, “A well-being app to support connection, expression, and learning”, and I had a quick play. It’s a tool to support reflection in…
Currently reading about how appealing to fear is effective in positively influencing behavior, and hardly ever backfires (Tannenbaum et al., 2015). Who would have thought?
Fear can lead to fight, flight, or freeze responses — or so we often hear. So far, I was under the impression that fear was generally not a good emotion…
Emotionally-responsive teaching
When I was recently thinking about emotions and teaching about sustainability, I came across the term “emotionally-responsive teaching” that really spoke to me, even though I did not really know what…
Thinking about emotions and teaching about sustainability
In communicating about climate change specifically, and other sustainability challenges, there is often the debate around how to kickstart people into action. Paint the doom-and-gloom (i.e. realistic) picture so people…
Currently reading: “Hope dies, action begins?” The role of hope for proactive sustainability engagement among university students. (Vandaele & Stålhammar, 2022)
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve talked to many people that are in one way or other involved in teaching about sustainability at high school or university level. One…