Essays about: "Key competencies for sustainable development"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words Key competencies for sustainable development.
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1. Education for Sustainable Chemistry : An Analysis of Sustainability in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Courses on the Bachelor Level at KTH
University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)Abstract : A programme analysis of the compulsory courses at the bachelor level of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology study programme Engineering Chemistry was conducted in order to evaluate how sustainable development is integrated and progressed as well as the attitudes toward sustainable development from the faculty. The analysis built on governing documents as well as interviews with examiners and students. READ MORE
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2. Sustainable Chemistry : An Analysis of Sustainability in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Courses on the Bachelor Level at KTH
University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)Abstract : A programme analysis of the compulsory courses at the bachelor level of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology study programme Engineering Chemistry was conducted in order to evaluate how sustainable development is integrated and progressed as well as the attitudes toward sustainable development from the faculty. The analysis built on governing documents as well as interviews with examiners and students. READ MORE
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3. Competency over complaceny - A content analysis of sustainable competencies and abilities within the Swedish school-age educare
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk professionAbstract : This content analysis combines the fields Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Swedish School-age Educare (SAEC) by looking at Key Sustainable Competencies and abilities within documents related to the SAEC and/or ESD. The documents are authored by the Swedish National Agency of Education (SNAE) and are chosen due to their relation to the SAEC teachers, most prominent being the Swedish National Curriculum and an ESD-module. READ MORE
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4. ‘Out of your Mind’: The Embodied Pedagogy of Social Presencing Theater for Sustainability
University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utvecklingAbstract : In order to address complex challenges and bring about transformations, change agents need to possess the necessary capacities. Contemplative pedagogies such as Social Presencing Theater (SPT) may play a crucial role in developing such capacities. READ MORE
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5. Salvaging Death Worlds : Drivers and Barriers to the Adoption of Biogas and Biofertilizer Production Systems on Gotland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknikAbstract : Utilizing an interdisciplinary, multi-level perspective analysis this thesis reviews niche- regime-landscape interactions (analogous to the clusters of actors working at the local level of Gotland representing niche; the regime being national governance goals; and the landscape incorporating global level affairs and institutions such as the European Union (EU)) and their (mis)alignments within the biogas/biofertilizer production system of Gotland, Sweden, a small-island case study for energy-food-transportation transition and sustainable destination development. The study analyzes the heterarchical and polycentric development of biogas on Gotland—a socio-technical niche, nested within a larger energy regime and global landscape for transition—developing an understanding of (mis)alignments of pressures interacting on, at, and between the niche-regime- landscape as they combine with the peculiar competencies, as Loorbach describes, “creative minds, strategists, and visionaries” of a cluster of actors working in the food- energy-transport nexus on the island (2010, p. READ MORE
