Sustainability in your teaching

Tim Stevens & Margien Bootsma

How can we embed sustainability across UU’s education programs? In this workshop, we will equip you with practical ideas and insights for integrating sustainability into your courses and programs. The workshop also aims to foster connections between students, teachers, and educators to embed sustainability across UU.

We’ll begin by sharing tools and examples that illustrate diverse approaches to integrating sustainability. Together, we’ll explore what is currently being done, identify opportunities for improvement, and discuss what is needed to move forward. The session offers new ideas, fosters connections, and gathers input on how UU can best support educators in embedding sustainability.

Join us to shape the future of sustainable education!

Biography

The workshop is organised by the Pathways to Sustainability community Sustainability Education and Engagement (SEE). The SEE community aims to connect and develop initiatives for including sustainability knowledge, attitudes, and skills in education at Utrecht University.

This workshop is developed by Tim Stevens, Margien Bootsma, Jelle Boeve-de Pauw and Eva Kamer.

Tim Stevens is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sustainable Development (Geosciences). Together with SEE he examines how teachers and students across UU's educational programs perceive sustainability in relation to their studies in order to identify effective ways to integrate sustainability into education.

Margien Bootsma is associate professor in Environmental Science and Sustainability Education at the Department of Sustainable Development (Faculty of Geosciences). She is especially interested in transformative, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches in sustainability education.

Jelle Boeve-de Pauw is associate professor of science education at the Freudenthal Institute of the Faculty of Science. His main interests go to sustainability and citizenship education and how these can cross-over in science education.

Eva Kamer is a Liberal Arts and Sciences student with a major in sustainability science. She works as a student-assistant for both the Sustainability Education and Engagement community and Future Food.