The UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development at Leuphana University Lüneburg and SETRI invites you to the next event in our UNESCO Chair Lecture Series on assessment in ESD taking place on the 24th of August, 2026.
Following the first session held on 1 June, where Aaron Redman from Aalborg University and Caleb Mandikonza from the University of Witwatersrand explored diverse perspectives on the history and future of assessment, the second conversation will introduce the new framework on Assessment in ESD. The DARE framework was developed within the UNESCO project "Transforming Futures: Enhancing Practice for ESD for 2030 through Action Research" and piloted in ten countries. DARE, which stands for “Describe, Appraise, Redesign and Evaluate,” is a practical, hands-on approach that helps educators rethink how they assess learning in Education for Sustainable Development. In four simple steps, it turns assessment from a box-ticking exercise into a tool that actually drives the change ESD aims for. The speakers, Aaron Redman (Aalborg University), Daniel Fischer (Leuphana University), and Jordan King (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA), will present the DARE approach before it becomes internationally available, likely from September 2026, as a UNESCO toolkit publication.
The session will be facilitated by Harald Hantke (Leuphana University).