What is sustainability and how is it integrated into teaching in different schools at Aalto?
What is sustainability and how is it integrated into teaching in different schools at Aalto?
How to Integrate Sustainability in Courses and Curricula
Are you a teacher hoping to find ways to integrate sustainability themes into your teaching? If you said yes, you will find this handbook useful!
The handbook equips you with theoretical knowledge of sustainability education and practical examples to help you discover your unique way of embedding sustainability in your teaching.
Take advantage of the opportunity to expand your teaching toolkit with practical sustainability integration strategies!
Aalto University encourages its teachers to integrate sustainability into their teaching. Explore the reasons behind this and explore examples of how teachers at Aalto have implemented sustainability into their practical teaching by watching the video below.
The video is opened by Elina Kähkönen, who is currently Cross-cutting Areas Officer at Aalto University.
The handbook equips you with theoretical knowledge of sustainability education and practical examples to help you discover your unique way of embedding sustainability in your teaching.
Take advantage of the opportunity to expand your teaching toolkit with practical sustainability integration strategies!
Aalto University encourages its teachers to integrate sustainability into their teaching. Explore the reasons behind this and explore examples of how teachers at Aalto have implemented sustainability into their practical teaching by watching the video below.
The video is opened by Elina Kähkönen, who is currently Cross-cutting Areas Officer at Aalto University.
The handbook consists of three sections:
- What is sustainability and how is it integrated into teaching in different schools at Aalto?
- Connecting your teaching to sustainability topics
- Teaching practices
Connecting your teaching to sustainability topics
As a teacher, you can have varying starting points for integrating sustainability in teaching. It is, for example, dependent on your subject field, the course and its objectives, and your possibilities to develop the course. Starting points range from setting sustainability as a topic of an individual exercise to redesigning an entire course. Every step in integrating sustainability into teaching is valuable and contributes to students' knowledge and competencies regarding sustainability.
Integrating sustainability into teaching: practices
In this section, you can read a text about eco-emotions by Sanni Saarimäki, study psychologist at Aalto University. We have also compiled a list of good practices for integrating sustainability in teaching.