The course relies on the student’s judgement about his or her advancement, and some peer-assessment in group work. Every student experiences a different journey throughout the semester, because of how varied their interests, experiences and educational backgrounds are. There is no right or wrong way to make use of this Read more…
Most of our classmates have spread all over the world and are interested in working with different aspects of the agrifood systems and beyond. These systems require learners to be self-reflective, adaptive and think holistically in order to address the complex and messy problems that our planet and our society Read more…
Learning cannot be an individualistic endeavour in today’s world. When we leave university we will be working with and across teams and experiences. Here at NMBU, your agroecology peer group will be very international, with a diverse demographic makeup, in educational background, experience and interests, as well as culture. In Read more…
Before we can understand the world around us we must understand ourselves. One key aspect of self-understanding for an agroecologist is our personal approach to learning. It is crucial as autonomous learners that we know best how we internalize information so we can be confident when we must find something Read more…
Despite how we are educated in school, with a formal class structure and assessment criteria, most learning happens casually. Just-in-time learning is a concept in adult education that explains how our motivation to understand something derives from its relevance to us. A good way to think about this concretely is Read more…
Systems thinking is an unconventional approach to learning in higher education, but it is CRUCIAL to agroecology. Conventionally, knowledge is broken down into disciplines with theoretical approaches that distinguish one component of a situation from another. Although we live in and work in, on and with a world of systems, Read more…
In the face of rapidly unfolding social and environmental crises, the problems of our time are messier and more complex than ever before. Therefore, as agroecologists we must be prepared to cope with our rapidly changing future. Today’s “wicked problems” (i.e. threats to biodiversity, loss of indigenous knowledge systems, soil Read more…