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Currently reading: “Stories of hope: reimagining education”

September 15, 2025

I recently started the daily practice of reading the book “Stories of hope: reimagining education” (first blog post here), and this is how it continues from day 4 to day…

Currently reading: “Stories of hope: reimagining education”

September 7, 2025

I am challenging myself to read one chapter of “Stories of hope: reimagining education” per day. Here is how it has been going for the first 4 days! In this…

Currently reading Finnegan & d’Abreu (2024) on “The hope wheel: a model to enable hope-based pedagogy in Climate Change Education”

September 3, 2025

We are discussing more and more about the importance of hope when talking about climate change and general sustainability questions, and I wrote about different approaches before (for example, Webb…

Currently reading about “Active hope” (Macy & Johnstone, 2022)

August 25, 2025

I’ve read and written about the importance of hope, especially when teaching for sustainability, before, and a book that always comes up in this context is Active hope by Macy…

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!

Reflections on the workshop “Pedagogy of Hope” by Diana Holmqvist

April 27, 2025

On Friday, I participated in a workshop on the “pedagogy of hope”, that Diana Holmqvist from Linköping University ran. Since she is one of the two authors of my current…

“An active academia for peace and sustainability” Hattle et al. (2025), and about constructive hope and doubt (Marlon et al., 2019)

February 27, 2025

After following the journey of my voting letter in the tracking app for more than a week and seeing that it did not make it to Sunday’s election on time,…

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…

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: “Stories of hope: reimagining education”

Currently reading: “Stories of hope: reimagining education”

Currently reading Finnegan & d’Abreu (2024) on “The hope wheel: a model to enable hope-based pedagogy in Climate Change Education”

Currently reading about “Active hope” (Macy & Johnstone, 2022)

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

Reflections on the workshop “Pedagogy of Hope” by Diana Holmqvist

“An active academia for peace and sustainability” Hattle et al. (2025), and about constructive hope and doubt (Marlon et al., 2019)

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!”

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

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