In a world where environmental challenges are becoming increasingly pressing, this program offers you a unique opportunity to become a leader in sustainability education. Through this course, you will delve into advanced theories and tutoring techniques that will enable you to understand the interconnection between learning and teaching. You will explore innovative pedagogical approaches, develop cross-disciplinary skills such as critical thinking, complex problem-solving, and active listening, and learn to inspire others to adopt sustainable practices.
Who is this Master’s course for?
Read the course book : Teaching sustainability l
Objective of the course
The aim of this course is to offer a solid foundation in learning, teaching, transversal skills and complex problem solving in the context of addressing sustainability issues.
The course is organised in 4 modules :
- Learning : how do adults learn, theories on learning, and lifelong learning
- Teaching and tutoring : how teaching connects to what we perceive as learning, what makes for “good” teaching, creating learning opportunities and scaffolding student learning and assessment
- Transversal skills : working with transversal skills to support learning, skill development, and assessment of skills
- Tutoring and teaching in complex sustainability problems : strategies and concepts important in understanding the complexity of sustainability problems, and how to develop systems thinking to address wicked problems
Transversal skills
- Access and evaluate appropriate sources of information
- Assess one’s own level of skill acquisition, and plan their on-going learning goals
- Continue to work through difficulties or initial failure to find optimal solutions
- Take account of the social and human dimensions of the engineering profession
- Take responsibility for environmental impacts of her/ his actions and decisions
- Resolve conflicts in ways that are productive for the task and the people concerned
Expected student activities
Students will be expected to :
- Actively participate in hands-on sessions
- Read and discuss theoratical concepts
- Participate in group and individual meta-cognitive activities
Language of teaching
French and English