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Currently reading “Addressing students’ eco-anxiety when teaching sustainability in higher education” by Eriksson et al. (2022)

July 7, 2025

It is extremely common that we experience strong emotions around climate change and all the other crises in the world. Some or all of these emotions are likely to come…

The Spiral of Silence, or why it is so difficult to talk about sustainability (updated)

May 30, 2025

I like using the “Spiral of Silence” when talking about why it is so difficult to talk about sustainability, so here comes an updated version!

Pihkala (2022)’s Model for “The Process of Eco-Anxiety and Ecological Grief”

May 27, 2025

Today I found the model by Pihkala (2022) that I think can be helpful when thinking and talking about eco-anxiety (and that I, of course, had to recreate in order…

Reflections on the workshop “How to deal with climate anxiety as teachers and researchers?”

April 29, 2025

On Thursday, I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the workshop “How to deal with climate anxiety as teachers and researchers?” co-organised by the Environmental Politics Research Group (EPRG)…

Kirsty Dunnett on Galløe (2023)’s “emotions differentiate opportunities”

February 1, 2025

My most loyal guest poster strikes again! Welcome Kirsty Dunnett, today writing about Galløe (2023)’s chapter on how emotions differentiate opportunities.

Using eco-guilt to motivate behaviour change seems not really supported by literature

December 9, 2024

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!”

December 6, 2024

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”

September 5, 2024

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”

January 9, 2024

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?

January 2, 2024

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

February 2, 2023

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

January 21, 2023

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)

September 20, 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…

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Currently reading “Addressing students’ eco-anxiety when teaching sustainability in higher education” by Eriksson et al. (2022)

The Spiral of Silence, or why it is so difficult to talk about sustainability (updated)

Pihkala (2022)’s Model for “The Process of Eco-Anxiety and Ecological Grief”

Reflections on the workshop “How to deal with climate anxiety as teachers and researchers?”

Kirsty Dunnett on Galløe (2023)’s “emotions differentiate opportunities”

Using eco-guilt to motivate behaviour change seems not really supported by literature

Thinking about how to respond when people say “Don’t talk to me about sustainability, you make me feel guilty!”

Thinking about Maria Weurlander’s seminar on “When learning becomes difficult: Emotional challenges in education”

Playing with Microsoft Reflect, “a well-being app to support connection, expression, and learning”

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?

Emotionally-responsive teaching

Thinking about emotions and teaching about sustainability

Currently reading: “Hope dies, action begins?” The role of hope for proactive sustainability engagement among university students. (Vandaele & Stålhammar, 2022)

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