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