Table 1.

Six SoL enablers

ComponentEnablerDescription
People▶ Capacities of university and societal stakeholdersThis is about engaging well-equipped university staff and societal stakeholders and, when appropriate, developing their capabilities through capacity building activities (Di Giulio and Defila, 2017)
Pedagogies▶ Emancipatory pedagogyThis is about generating space for reflexivity and choices, both freely made and self- or group-determined, with the intent to empower students to shape the direction of their collaborative work in the midst of challenges (Wals and Jickling, 2002)
 ▶ Instructional pedagogyThis is about transferring course procedures, standards and knowledge to students, with the intent to support students’ collaborative work in a specific pre-established direction (Wals and Jickling, 2002)
Structures▶ Brokering arrangementsThis is about ensuring the recruitment of transdisciplinary sustainability-oriented projects, as well as the formation of the team of students and the matching of students’ academic backgrounds to the respective projects (McMillan et al., 2016)
 ▶ Course attributesThis is about implementing course materials, activities, assessment, schedule and time arrangements that are aligned with the aim of the course (van den Akker, 2004)
Processes▶ Students’ learning processesThis is about nurturing relationships of quality, role identities, boundary-crossing, agency and responsiveness, academic consultancy and ethics (Akkerman and Bakker, 2011; Tassone et al., 2018; Burke and Stets, 2009)

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