Binging someone else’s reading list for their sustainability course
I am reading the course literature for a sustainability course that a colleague shared with me, to see if I want to use some of it in a similar course…
Tag: theories of change
Roxå et al. (2025): “Entangled in context: addressing academic development and choice architecture”
My colleague Torgny Roxå had a new paper come out (on our shared Birthday no less!) on how academic development depends on context. Together with colleagues from Bratislava, they investigate…
“Teachers should be allowed to be learners”! Currently reading Lidgren et al. (2006)
What are the barriers to including sustainability into courses and curricula at Lund University? Lidgren, Rodhe and Huisingh (2006) start from the premise that universities have an important role to…
It is not up to us to complete the work, but neither are we free to desist from it
I now finished reading Venet (2024)’s “Becoming an Everyday Changemaker: Healing and Justice in School” (where I understood that “the process is the point“, and where then helpful tools like…
Currently reading Kezar (2005) on “Moving from I to We: Reorganizing for collaboration in higher education”
I have recently noticed over and over again that many teachers tell us that they would love to work more collaboratively, that they are craving community, that they would like…
Reading about team-based faculty development (Bolander Laksov et al., 2022)
Bolander Laksov et al. (2022) designed a program “to support teams of clinical teachers to build capacity to lead educational change based on educational research in their clinical environments” to…
Wamsler et al. (2021)’s literature review on “Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action”, and “Inner Development Goals”
Especially when it comes to teaching about climate change or sustainability more generally, it seems unavoidable to really consider mental states. While the dominant discourse around climate change has been…
“Systems conveners in complex landscapes” (Wenger-Trayner & Wenger-Trayner, 2014)
If I had to pick one book that has influenced my current thinking about teaching and learning the most, I would pick Wenger’s 1998 “Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and…
Reinholz et al. (2021)’s eight most used theories of change and how they relate to each other in my head
I’ve been playing with this figure (inspired by the Reinholz et al. 2021 article) for a while now for the iEarth/BioCeed Leading Educational Change course, where we try to look…
Thinking about theories of change (based on Reinholz et al., 2021)
I’ve spent quite some time thinking about how to apply theories of change to changing learning and teaching culture (initially in the framework of the iEarth/BioCEED course on “leading educational…
Quick summary of literature on the Teacher-Centered Systemic Reform
As preparation for our next meeting in iEarth & bioCEED’s course on “Leading Educational Change”, I am reading up on “Teacher-Centered Systemic Reform” (TCSR). The motivation to develop TCSR as…
8 steps to accelerate change in your organization (Kotter, 2018)
I’ve been thinking a lot about driving change recently (especially in the context of the “leading educational change” course by iEarth and BioCEED), and found the Kotter Inc. website on…
Currently reading: “Leveraging Multiple Theories of Change to Promote Reform” (Kezar & Holcombe, 2019)
I am attending a course on “leading educational change”, run by two Norwegian centres for excellence in education, iEarth and BioCEED. The course brings together people working on educational change…