The Emerging Climate Emergency: What Now for University Education?
We will discuss how to rethink education in light of the climate emergency. What courses, pedagogical methods, skills and approaches do we need?
Hovedinnhold
Runa Falck (KLIMA 200, UiB), Jakob Grandin (The Collaboratory, UiB), Roger Strand (Master in sustainability, UiB) and Lea Andrea Igland Røys (Student Society, UiB) in conversation with Håvard Haarstad (Leader of the Climate Pillar and Director of CET).
What does the recent assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) mean for how we develop educational programmes and teach students in the university? The recent assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underlines the emerging climate situation, now with higher degree of scientific certainty and greater urgency. What does this mean for how we develop educational programmes and teach students in the university?
In this panel debate, we will discuss how to rethink education in light of the climate emergency. What courses, pedagogical methods, skills and approaches do we need? The panel debate is organised under the climate pillar of the Bergen School of Global Studies (BSGS), led by the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET). The debate will provide input for BSGS’s work.
This seminar is part of a series that addresses the global challenges that are at the heart of the Bergen School of Global Studies: Climate, Governance, Health, Inequality and Migration. The debate will be moderated by Håvard Haarstad (Leader of the Climate Pillar and Director of CET).
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The conference is free and open to all. Seating is limited, so first come, first served.
COVID regulations
According to the COVID-19 regulations, all attendees must keep a distance of at least one metre from each other and maintain good hand hygiene. Your name and phone number will be registered and kept for 14 days. If you have any respiratory tract symptoms, you should stay at home.
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