Educating for Sustainability: Planetary Boundaries and the Climate
About the course
In this course, you strengthen your ability to teach one of the most urgent topics of our time: planetary boundaries and accelerating climate change. You gain the scientific grounding and the pedagogical strategies you need to turn complex sustainability challenges into engaging, accessible learning.
You discover how governance, institutions, and societal structures shape real‑world climate action — insights that help you create richer, more relevant learning experiences.
You also explore innovative, cross‑disciplinary teaching methods that bring climate and sustainability to life in the classroom. By the end of the course, you have practical tools and inspiring approaches that empower you to motivate your students and support them in understanding — and acting on — the global challenges ahead.
Course content
The aim of the course is for the student to develop knowledge and pedagogical strategies to be able to teach about the global challenges of exceeding planetary boundaries and escalating climate change.
By combining scientific understanding with norm-critical perspectives, the course further aims for the course participants to develop their ability to communicate complex sustainability challenges while highlighting the importance of governance in shaping collective responses.
The course highlights how institutions, policies and other societal structures shape both measures to reduce the impact on the climate and strategies for adapting to climate change.
The course explores different pedagogical perspectives on and methods for teaching about climate and planetary boundaries across disciplinary boundaries.
Entry requirements and selection
Entry requirements
A first-cycle degree comprising at least 180 ECTS credits or equivalent.
Selection
100% University credits completed
Course literature
Current literature list is available in the syllabus for the course
Course evaluation
Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).
