https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2025-2026/B_HSUSBMSWe are living in times of planetary crisis. In this course, you adopt critical perspectives on how to respond to the crisis as a professional in education and family studies, psychology, or human movement. This provides you with scientific and professional practices that foster sustainability and care for life on our planet. To achieve this you:create a project in which you develop ideas and take meaningful action that fosters sustainability for education and family studies, psychology, or human movement, and;participate in lectures and discussions to learn about and reflect upon ecological perspectives in education and family studies, psychology, and human movement, and;learn about the current state of science with respect to the planetary crisis, and the intersecting societal systems that contribute to this.You start with getting to know your fellow students and teachers through a walking tour of Amsterdam. You also attend a series of lectures that address the science of the planetary crisis and approaches within education and family studies, psychology and human movement, and intersectional thinking in which there is ample room for discussion and debate. In parallel, you do a project that contributes to tackling the planetary crisis. To do so, you come up with an idea, plan, action and present it.This course has about 15 meetings in which lectures are mixed with discussions, analysis and reflections of the literature and alternated with project presentations.Project assignment and written examA collection of recent papers and book chapters (details to be announced).This course is part of the minor ‘Pedagogen en goed onderwijs’. It is designed for students from educational and family studies, psychology, and human movement sciences,but open to all bachelor students irrespective of disciplinary background. For more info, please see Canvas.Questions? Email Simone Burger (
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