Tag: sustainability activity example

This is something I want to try with our Teaching for Sustainability community, and you are welcome to join: A regular “Sit Spot” practice!

If anyone is looking for podcast recommendations, these are the two where I listen to almost every episode and it is always worth the invested time! Here are two recent episodes that I loved.

Sitting on the ferry back to Sweden a week ago (was it only a week ago?!), I listened to the episode “Sit Spot Mindfulness” on 60 second SoTL, and then had to immediately (or at least as soon as I had internet close Møn) read the original publication by Bitting et al. (2026).

Wals (2022) argues that the classical key competencies for sustainability are not sufficient, that we also need to learn to disrupt, and then learn from the resistance against that. Interesting!!

Sitting on the ferry back to Sweden after two weeks in Germany, I listened to a great podcast episode on the podcast Update Hochschule (in German) on the topic of social media. @frauforschung Lisa Niendorf, whose content on Instagram I’ve enjoyed A LOT lately (and other notable German Insta in the same niche, Prof. Dr. […]

Didn’t feel like I had time to go for a morning dip, but made the time and am glad I went, both because that’s always awesome and because it gave me the chance to listen to the episode “How college students make, keep and lose friends with Janice McCabe” on one of my alltime favourite […]

Related to whether we teach in a fact-based, normative or pluralistic way, there is also the issue with teaching about topics that might be controversial (hello again, sustainability, and my post earlier on conflicts and resistance), and how to deal with that. After recently having heard his work on “teaching controversial issues” summarized as “don’t […]

Sunday at the pool, waiting for my training to start, I read about the first half of the book “the existential toolkit for climate justice educators: how to teach in a burning world“.

How do we teach for sustainability when the class is huge and there is a lot of content to be covered? One really nice example is described by Monger (2022), who is “teaching oceanography by engaging students in civic activism“.

This morning, I ran a workshop for university teachers called “Teaching for Sustainability: Practicing for a sustainable future through sustainable pedagogies“. You can look at all the slides here, or see some of them below together with a quick summary of what I said about them. Most of what I am writing below I have written […]

I have a bunch of articles that were recommended during our LTHEChat on teaching sustainability last year that have been sitting in a special folder, waiting for a day like today where the best thing to do (right after a dip and a looong, comfy breakfast) is to curl up on the couch and read. […]

I was recently sent Clara Hallgarth’s Master’s thesis on “Educational Methods for Fostering Sustainability Competencies: A Toolkit for Integration of Sustainable Education in Engineering” (thanks, Clara!) and really enjoyed reading it; it’s a  treasure trove of great references and even better ideas! I am summarizing my main takeaways below, but keep in mind that this […]

LTH has been running Pedagogical Inspiration Conferences since 2003, with the 13th conference happening in December 2025. I was really impressed by the number (and quality!) of presentations on teaching sustainability there (see my summaries of the contributions below).

This morning, I read the article “Carving space to learn for sustainable futures: A theory-informed adult education approach to teaching” by Holmqvist & Millenberg (2024) and it really resonated with me. They write that “education for sustainability is, by necessity, value-based, place-embedded and emancipatory, seeking to help learners develop a desire to connect – to […]

I often teach faculty development workshops at Kiel University. Since we have been in remote teaching mode almost exclusively since March 2020, dealing with virtual classes is a pressing subject – both for the faculty who attend my workshops, but also for myself as I have to present best practice examples of leading fully-virtual all-day […]