TY - CHAP

T1 - Leuphana Semester: ESD professional development module on Responsibility and Sustainability, Germany

AU - Michelsen, Gerd

AU - Prien-Ribcke, Sven

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Once a year, the module Responsibility and Sustainability provides a three-day workshop to help prepare its teaching staff for the challenges of delivering this module. A major difficulty is for lecturers to combine Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) with the didactic approach of undergraduate research, which introduces students to academic research in an interdisciplinary field. The module Responsibility and Sustainability, which is part of the first semester Bachelor program at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, introduces all students in the first semester to ESD through project-based seminars. The module’s teaching staff is made up of both professors and lecturers from Leuphana as well as external university lecturers. The workshop has been initiated to develop a culture of collaborative teaching and learning that enables lecturers to improve their didactic competences and to engage in a reflective dialogue on the experience of leading research-based seminars for undergraduates.The workshop is co-developed and implemented by the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development togetherwith Leuphana College. Over the last few years, it has been partly financed by the Lüneburg Innovation Incubator.

AB - Once a year, the module Responsibility and Sustainability provides a three-day workshop to help prepare its teaching staff for the challenges of delivering this module. A major difficulty is for lecturers to combine Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) with the didactic approach of undergraduate research, which introduces students to academic research in an interdisciplinary field. The module Responsibility and Sustainability, which is part of the first semester Bachelor program at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, introduces all students in the first semester to ESD through project-based seminars. The module’s teaching staff is made up of both professors and lecturers from Leuphana as well as external university lecturers. The workshop has been initiated to develop a culture of collaborative teaching and learning that enables lecturers to improve their didactic competences and to engage in a reflective dialogue on the experience of leading research-based seminars for undergraduates.The workshop is co-developed and implemented by the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development togetherwith Leuphana College. Over the last few years, it has been partly financed by the Lüneburg Innovation Incubator.

KW - Sustainability education

KW - Higher education

KW - Sustainability

KW - Professional development

KW - Case study

KW - Europe

KW - Higher Education and Science Management

KW - Sustainability Science

UR - http://www.ue4sd.eu/outcomes/111-leading-practice-publication-launched-at-the-ue4sd-annual-conference-in-madrid

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/e873fb8a-466c-3ae9-b00c-97d7dd1aeb51/

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-80-87076-22-4

SP - 95

EP - 100

BT - Leading Practice Publication

A2 - Kapitulcinova u.a., Dana

PB - Charles University, Prague

CY - Prague

ER -