Currently reading: The Systems Thinking Playbook!
I found a sample of “the systems thinking playbook” online, and while there is quite some overlap with the climate change playbook it developed into later, there are also some…
Tag: key competencies for sustainability
“Education for Sustainable Development Curriculum Design Toolkit” by Higgins & Calvert (2025)
I found another “head, hands, heart” model! This time, Calvert et al. (2022) use it as a frame to organise the key competencies for sustainability:
Currently reading “the Climate Change Playbook” by Meadows et al. (2016)
In a recent Transformation Thursday (the monthly networking opportunity that Terese and I have started, where we sit in one of the university canteens over lunch and invite teachers wanting…
Megagames demo with Ola Leifler
27 curious teachers joined Ola Leifler‘s demonstration of large-scale social simulations (“Megagames”) yesterday. Can you imagine playing a game with 180 people in individual roles for a full day? Me…
Attempting to Assess Key Competencies in Sustainability
In this post, I am bringing together a bunch of thoughts and literature, and try to provide an idea of how to assess key competencies in sustainability. Wish me luck!…
Sustainability competences, what they mean and when we need them (loosely after Wiek, Redman, and colleagues)
I like using the Redman & Wiek (2021) framework for sustainability competencies that shows sustainability competencies relating to each other as well as to disciplinary content and generic competencies. But…
Browsing the “you have a part to play” toolkit for higher education for sustainability (Meerkerk, de Mul & Broekhaus; 2024)
I’m currently preparing for several consulting projects where I’ll be supporting groups of teachers with developing their teaching to include a focus on sustainability competencies, so I am looking through…
Summary part 1 of “Competences in Education for Sustainable Development. Critical Perspectives” (Vare, Lausselet, Rieckmann, 2022)
Continuing my mission of “I am reading it so you don’t have to” on a new book: Competences in Education for Sustainable Development. Critical Perspectives by Vare, Lausselet, & Rieckmann…
Reflections on a seminar on “Introducing Sustainability Competencies”
This morning, I participated in an online seminar on “Introducing Sustainability Competencies”, run by my awesome colleagues Steven Curtis and Terese Thoni. Here are my reflections (and if you are…
Mapping the requirements of the Swedish Higher Education Ordinance (1993) and Key Sustainability Competencies (Redman & Wiek, 2021)
This is just a quick and dirty mapping, but even though details can certainly be discussed, I think that there is nevertheless a striking overlap between what the Swedish law…
Recap of the first meeting of my new course “Teaching for Sustainability”
Yesterday was the first meeting of this spring’s installment of my “teaching for sustainability” course and it is so inspiring and energizing to meet so many motivated and engaged teachers!…
Operationalising and assessing sustainability competencies (some ideas from Wiek et al. (2016) and Redman et al. (2020))
We put a lot of effort into teaching for sustainability, but whether or not we are actually successful in doing so remains unclear until we figure out a way to…
Currently reading: “Competencies for advancing transformations towards sustainability” (Redman & Wiek, 2021)
What competencies should we be teaching students so they will be best equipped to work towards a sustainable future? The (really useful, me thinks!) Redman & Wiek (2021) framework.