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Category:
Courses
Educational hub:
Sustainability & Climate Change
Target audience:
Students
Keywords:
Sustainable education and leadership
University:
University of Iceland

ECTS credits:
5
Mode of delivery:
Virtual
Contact name:
Dr. Auður Pálsdóttir
Contact email:
audurp@hi.is
Contact name #2:
Sandra Berg Cepero
Contact email #2:
Language:
English
Study cycle:
Master
Additional info:
Contact for registration: sandra@hi.is

Start date:
2023-09-08
End date:
2023-11-25
Application start:
2023-08-18
Application deadline:
2023-09-05

SGD:
SDG4. Quality education
Course credit:
Yes
Free course:
Yes
Aurora competence framework:
Only for enrolled students:
Yes
Open for registration to all Aurora Universities:
Yes
Faculty:
Education
Micro-credential:
No

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