Sustainability Education and Learning

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

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

Application procedure:

Students apply via The University of Iceland’s Aurora application portal, where they log in using their home university credentials. All students must attach a copy of their current transcript from their home institution and the information page of their passport or another form of valid travel ID to their application.

Applications will be answered by the end of December.