Category:
Courses
Educational hub:
Target audience:
Students
Keywords:
Sustainability, Education, Activism
University:
University of Iceland
ECTS credits:
5
Mode of delivery:
Virtual
Contact name:
Birta B. Kjerúlf
Contact email:
aurora@hi.is
Contact name #2:
Alma Ágústsdóttir
Contact email #2:
Language:
English
Study cycle:
Master
Additional info:
Start date:
2026-01-12
End date:
2026-05-12
Application start:
2025-11-13
Application deadline:
2025-12-14
SGD:
SDG4. Quality education
Course credit:
Yes
Free course:
Yes
Aurora competence framework:
LOUIS
Only for enrolled students:
Yes
Open for registration to all Aurora Universities:
Yes
Faculty:
Education
Micro-credential:
No
Mode of study:
Distance learning with real -time participation in online meetings.
Course Description:
The purpose of this course is to provide participants with opportunities to focus on learning, teaching and leisure activities for sustainability. The on-line sessions are built on informed debate under lead by students. Three major assignments will be expected together with student participation in organising classes, leading discussions plus a final assignment. The course is taught online and it is obligatory to attend 80% of classes according to the course plan.
Examples of issues to be dealt with:
- Activism in learning and teaching
- Place-based and experiential education
- Behavioural change
- Science learning, technology and sustainability
- Creativity, creation of knowledge and social sustainability
- University education, adult learning
- Formal, informal and non-formal learning
- Social Entrepreneurship Education
Learning outcomes:
At the end of the course students can:
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of issues and models related to learning, teaching and leisure activities for sustainability
- relate the issues implicit in educational action for sustainability to students’ own work in learning and teaching for sustainability
- analyze and evaluate different approaches and contradictions that arise when working with learning and teaching for sustainability
- can engage in difficult dialogue and work with controversial issues in writing and oral debate
- debate their ideas on learning and educational action for sustainability and related problems and solutions with both specialist and non-specialist audiences
- state a position or present objections, scrutinize assumptions and implications of different ethical perspectives
- engage in and interpret academic readings showing autonomy in dialogue within and beyond own subject field