Kursbeschreibung

This course offers teaching staff at SEA-EU Universities an introduction to higher education for sustainable development (H-ESD). What skills do we need to understand the complex challenges of the present, and to be able to actively and reflectively help shape the future? These “change agent competencies” are different from general academic or disciplinary skills, and require adaptations in our teaching practice so that students can build them. HESD offers a well-researched and tested educational approach for teaching and learning sustainability and these key competencies. The workshop provides practical tools to pragmatically integrate HESD into existing teaching formats of all subjects, with an emphasis on intercultural learning for the SEA-EU setting.

The course will meet online via zoom. It includes inputs, interactive elements where participants can engage the material and learn with/from each other, and impulses for individual application of the course content.

Course Lead: Leonie Bellina works as a teacher, speaker, and consultant on Higher Education for Sustainable Development (H-ESD) in continuing education for university lecturers, curriculum development, and systemic organizational development for universities. She is an Associate Researcher at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tübingen, and researches and teaches in the field of political ecology with a focus on environmental justice, critical sustainability research & socio-ecological transformation, as well as emancipatory education for sustainable development.

Learning objectives:

The participants will ...

• have an understanding of HESD and its key concepts,
• know sustainability-competence-models and how to engage them,
• explore tools for the integration of HESD into their own teaching and be able to apply them,
• engage the concept of “glocal” teaching- learning environments and interculturality as a strength in sustainability learning.

Target Group: University teaching staff and members of SEA-EU-Universities

Organisational details:

• When you register as a mandatory participant, please note that attending the training is part of your official duties and an unexcused absence is a violation of your official responsibilities. Any further education undertaken during your working hours is subject to the prior approval of your manager.

• Access information to the course will be announced via e-mail.
• CAU-Certificates: Certificate University Didactics: Digital Teaching
• Fee: 187,50 €. FREE FOR ALL SEA-EU Members! Free for employees of CAU and PhD students who are registered within the Graduiertenzentrum.
• Deadline for registration: 10 workdays before the date of the course

• Further Organisational information (in German)