Based on the Routledge Handbook Marco Rieckmann (Uni Vechta) presented key issues, trends and needs for future research on Higher Education for Sustainable Development.
In spring 2016, Prof. Marco Rieckmann (University of Vechta) was invited to two meetings in Lithuania and England as a guest speaker on didactics of higher education in the context of education for sustainable development. For the 26th of April, the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO had invited experts to the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, for an exchange on how to foster sustainable development in Institutions of Higher Education (HEI). Marco Rieckmann reported on teaching and learning approaches to foster competencies for sustainable development. He presented examples of service-learning courses from his own teaching that were developed in the context of the CASE project. Furthermore he discussed teachers’ needs for capacity building in terms of competence-oriented teaching and learning for sustainable development. The second meeting took place on the 5th of May at Plymouth University (UK) and was intended as an internal, informal exchange between experts for higher education for sustainable development of this university. Based on the Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development, Marco Rieckmann presented key issues, trends and needs for future research on Higher Education for Sustainable Development. In a second part he talked about the implementation of Higher Education for Sustainable Development at the University of Vechta (Germany) and its contribution to the development of students’ sustainability competencies.
The two meetings have contributed to advance competence-oriented teaching and learning in the context of sustainable development in the landscape of European HEI.
Link to Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development
