Stefan Bengtsson

Uppsala University | UU · Department of Education

Sustainability in teacher education is discussed and enacted differently in various countries. A look into ten countries, as well as universities world-wide, offers insights, good practice examples and initial approaches to beneficially implement ESD in teacher education around the globe. First steps are already being taken and serve as a helpful b...

Climate change education is seen as an important contributor to climate change mitigation. Yet, its predominant focus on cognitive learning tends to omit the emotional effects of learning about climate change, which often entails learners feeling anxious and overwhelmed and therefore struggling to engage with and enact ‘solutions’. This paper addre...

Artikelns syfte är att skapa medvetenhet om den tyska idealismens påverkan på didaktiskt tänkande, både när det gäller undervisningsinnehåll och specifikt när undervisningsinnehåll förstås i relation till antropocen. Artikeln är strukturerad så att den belyser de två aspekter som ingår i artikelns titel: kopplingen mellan didaktik och idealism, sam...

In this study we investigate subject didactic reflections of 183 teacher students in civics, history, geography or religion in primary, elementary or secondary schools. We ask teacher students to reflect on what they perceive to be important and difficult to teach in their subject and also what methods they think would be productive. A comparative...

This paper analyses how ‘criticality’ is negotiated in the global policy frameworks on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and re-conceptualised in Vietnamese ESD policymaking. Taking the context of Viet Nam, this paper reflects on what constitutes criticality in education in the light of cultural and historical contexts of the education sy...

This paper seeks to reclaim irony as more than a way of humorously pointing out that the times we live in are out of joint or coming to an end, instead emphasizing its potential as a productive force and method in both educational thinking and teaching practice. By interrogating the educative potential of irony as method and humorous experience in...

The Action Competence approach to environmental and sustainability education (EES) has spread throughout Scandinavia and internationally with a Bildung oriented educative outlook, emphasizing the importance of critical thinking and enlightened action (Breiting et al., Action Competence, Conflicting Interests and Environmental Education, DPU, 1999;...

This paper aims to investigate the corona-crisis as a large-scale, unplanned and unintended global experiment of ‘public pedagogy’. An investigation is focused on touching upon emergent questions such as: What does our experience of the crisis brought about by the emergence of this specific virus tell us about our assumptions of learning and of pub...

Summary ● Need to rethink the relation between learning/teaching – education – development: Problem with holism and history (development) ● Transgression as breaking with historicity and moving ”beyond” hegemony

The Pluriversity for stuck humxns is an exploratory dialogue between early career researchers and established researchers. It responds to the concern that dominant forms of knowledge production are not assisting us to move towards life affirming ways of being and that alternatives are possible. The production of this chapter is one of many new acts...

Presentationen kommer att belysa lärdomar från och utmaningar i det Svenska arbetet med Utbildning för Hållbar Utveckling (UHU) före och under FN-programmet ”Global Action Programme on ESD”. Specifikt så belyses den Svenska tolkningen av UHU i utbildningspolitik, forskning och undervisningspraktik. Arbetet med UHU kontextualiseras mot bakgrunden av...

Content: 1. Dark Pedagogy - an outline 2. Object-oriented learning/education without nature 3. Object-oriented didactics

This article draws on the emerging speculative realist philosophical movement in order to develop new understandings of the issues and content of education that needs framing and reframing within environmental and sustainability education (ESE) research. We argue for the potential of using speculative realist concepts such as correlationism, hypero...

An alternative didactical outlook that breaks with Idealism and rethinks axiomatic starting points for teaching intervention that engages with the object of education.

This chapter introduces the link between speculative realism and pedagogical and educational issues that acts as the background for our conception of Dark Pedagogy. Dark pedagogy is situated as an effort to understand and rethink current pedagogical and educational perspectives on how we handle issues such as the imminent climate crisis, environmen...

This chapter engages with death by relating death to the notion of the subject at the core of educational thought. Death is shown to tell us something about the subject as learner and its assumed unity, autonomy and invulnerability. Educational thought drawing on the notion of the Enlightenment learner is not able to think its own death. Accordingl...

This chapter aims to provide a tentative outline of a pedagogy of vulnerability. Building upon the consideration of the educative potential of death, a pedagogy of vulnerability is to explore in what way education might relate to the vulnerability of the learner. A pedagogy is to be outlined that is engaging with the anticipation of a future self a...

This paper develops a theory of transgressive learning (t-learning) as it was experimented with in the International Science Council t-learning network. The method applied is a diffractive reading of conceptions of transgression in academic publications emerging from different cases. The results show that there can be no definite conduct to or unde...

'Transformative pedagogic practice' probes the gap between the policy Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and contextualized pedagogic practice in India’s heterogeneous educational system. The book explores opportunities for innovation and paradigm change in reproductive classroom teaching and develops principles and methods for ESD grounde...

Dark pedagogy explores how different perspectives can be incorporated into a darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education. Drawing on the work of the classic horror author H.P. Lovecraft and new materialist insights of speculative realism, the authors link Lovecraft’s ‘tales of the horrible’ to the current spectres of environm...

This chapter interrogates the concept of nature as central to the understanding of education, learning, and the position of the child in education. Based on a problematization of the concept of nature, a philosophy of education without nature is outlined. This philosophy is substantiated by a conception of object-oriented learning, where learning i...

Assumptions are readily made about the global nature and discourse of education for sustainable development. This study challenges assumptions made about structural power as expressed through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) policy and politics of education. Focusing on the concept of sustainable development (SD) and ESD, the research ex...

The objective of this dissertation is to develop a theoretical and analytical framework for understanding the political in education from a social and global perspective. With this objective in mind, it employs an empirical engagement and theoretical reflection on how this political can be seen to emerge in policy making on Education for Sustainabl...

The article explores education for sustainable development (ESD) as a policy concept in different spaces and how it is re-articulated as part of a process of globalisation. The objective is to explore empirically an alternative set of logics in order to conceive of this process of globalisation. With this objective in mind, the article investigates...

This article tries to contribute to the critical debate on the ideological and globalising potential of education for sustainable development (ESD), which exists in the research field of environmental education, by highlighting potential contradictions in the argumentation for ESD’s ideological and globalising tendency. Further, the authors of this...