Amanda Glob Nielsen completed her teacher education at Denmark’s first women’s teacher training college. There, she developed a sustained interest in critical pedagogy and anti-racist education. She later pursued graduate studies in didactics. Her master’s thesis examined sustainability education and included an analysis of teaching materials across Denmark’s major educational resource databases. She subsequently worked as a research assistant on a project exploring education in regenerative mussel farming, conducting qualitative interviews with environmental educators. She later authored a comprehensive Scandinavian review on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). She is currently a PhD fellow at the University of Southern Denmark, researching role-play as a part of developing eco-literacy with pupils in the danish upper primary school.
While here Amanda offered the following
- Futures Forum #2: Amanda Glob Nielsen – RF Visiting Scholar – “Role-playing with food in a posthuman perspective” – Tuesday 10th March @ 2pm. Grounded in posthumanism and ecofeminism, I would like to discuss how roleplay as a method for perspective shifts, creativity, and ecological reflection can help develop eco-literacy in education. After testing a sci-fi RPG in Danish schools, I reconsidered how imagination, embodiment, and eco-literacy are supported within current systems. I argue that eco-literacy is not memorizing facts, but cultivating creative, democratic, and emotionally engaged conversations and practices. My research now turns to food as an overlooked yet powerful actor. What can an apple, a pig, or water teach us about interdependence, Indigenous knowledge, and living and dying well together in a more-than-human world? See recording here
- She hosted the Family Science Games Night – SEBE Students project
- She also attended the Posthuman Summer School
Posted May 30, 2026
