The Self-scan for sustainable education can be used to map and discuss how sustainability is currently anchored in the curriculum of the study programme. It is a conversation tool and diagnostic for internal use.
You’ll learn from each other by analysing the curriculum in detail together with colleagues, inspiring each other with examples and discussing which level of development this involves. The outcome provides insight into where you stand in relation to the set goals and can be used to create an improvement plan. The self-scan can be used regularly (e.g., annually) and is supportive of the PDCA cycle and part of the study programme’s/institute’s quality management. Around sustainability, perhaps not everything can be captured in numbers because it also involves a growth in awareness and attitude around the theme. The Self-scan for sustainable education is primarily a conversation tool.
The Self-scan for sustainable education is inspired by a working method, which has been in use at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences for some time. In addition, the design is grafted onto the Sustainable Higher Education (SHE) framework of Hobeon, which can result in the attribute of sustainable education in accreditation. From this framework, the stages of development were taken, including the part of the goals related to the study programme, curriculum and students. If a study programme would want to obtain the SHE label (1 x every 6 years), the Self-scan for sustainable education is a good preparation.
The following study programmes have helped develop the self-scan by participating in pilots: Oral Care, Communication, Communication & Multimedia Design and the Archimedes Teacher training Institute.