Weaving Hybrid Futures: Sustainability in Higher Education with PBL Through Art, Science, and Robotics
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Horvath, Anca-Simona, Laura Beloff, Lykke Brogaard Bertel, Judit Boros, Lorena Cebolla Sanahuja, Pia Fricker, Foad Hamidi, et al. “Editorial: Weaving Hybrid Futures: Sustainability in Higher Education with PBL Through Art, Science, and Robotics.” Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education 11, no. 2 (October 10, 2023): I–VII. https://doi.org/10.54337/ojs.jpblhe.v11i2.7981.
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Sustainability is currently one of the most important topics in higher education and curriculum development. As a connected and interdependent global community, we are facing increasingly complex and multidimensional socio-political, economic, and environmental challenges. It is clear that trans-disciplinary efforts are necessary to tackle sustainability. Integrating sustainability in educational curricula involves cultivating a way of thinking that is holistic and collaborative so that we can adequately prepare students to work across disciplines, sectors, institutions, and geographies. Problem-based learning, a student-centered learning approach that focuses on real-life problems and where students typically work in groups (Servant-Miklos et al., (2023)), was shown to be a good method for teaching students to engage with complex topics such as sustainability. Defining sustainability is a double act of communication across disciplines and planning for and imagining the future, which requires creativity and, at times, speculation. This act is made more difficult by the fact that there is a lack of consensus surrounding sustainability and through what means and metrics sustainability should be assessed (Horsbøl, 2023; Smith, 2019). How can we use often conflicting conceptions to imagine and design sustainable futures? How can transdisciplinarity inform education and equip future students with a sustainability mindset to face the challenges of their time? These are the core research questions that inform this special issue on Weaving Hybrid Futures: Sustainability in Higher Education with PBL Through Art, Science, and Robotics.