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Education and Sustainability Leadership

Keywords:
Sustainable education and leadership
Pilot domain:
Sustainability & Climate Change
ECTS credits:
5
Mode of delivery:
Virtual
University:
University of Iceland
Contact:
Dr. Auður Pálsdóttir
Contact 2:
Sandra Berg Cepero
Language:
English
Study cycle:
Master
Additional info
Contact for registration: sandra@hi.is
Faculty:
Education
SDG:
SDG4. Quality education
Course credit:
Yes
Free course:
Yes
Aurora competence framework:
Start date:
2023-09-08
End date:
2023-11-25
Application start:
2023-08-18
Application deadline:
2023-09-05
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The purpose of this course is to provide participants with opportunities to work with institutional and systems approaches in working with sustainability and sustainability education. This is a reading course where on-line and campus sessions are built on informed debate. 

Examples of issues to be taught:

  • Education for sustainability in formal and informal settings (e.g. in workplaces)
  • Leadership for sustainability (e.g. whole school or leisure activity change)
  • Relations between science and sustainability (e.g. tactic/principle)
  • Wicked problems
  • Rural development and sustainability
  • Creating shared values (including corporate social responsibility) 
  • Curriculum change