Datenpaket: Supplementary Material - Sustainability Self-Experiments

Dieser Anhang stellt die Definition, die Struktur sowie eine exemplarische Anwendung von Nachhaltigkeits-Selbstexperimenten (Sustainability Self-Experiments, SSE) vor, einem transformativen Lehrformat, das am Karlsruher Transformationszentrum (KAT) des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie (KIT) entwickelt und im Reallabor „Quartier Zukunft – Labor Stadt“ umgesetzt wurde. Darüber hinaus bietet der Anhang vertiefende Einblicke in die Ergebnisse der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse, in der die durch diese Selbstexperimente erworbenen Nachhaltigkeitskompetenzen bei Studierenden untersucht wurden.
Damit bietet er vertiefende Einblicke in die Analyse, die dem Paper “Assessing competency development in transformative teaching – A real-world lab case study on Sustainability Self-Experiments”, zugrunde liegt.

This appendix presents the definition, structure, and an exemplary application of Sustainability Self-Experiments (SSE), a transformative teaching format developed at the Karlsruher Transformation Center (KAT) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and implemented in the real-world laboratory “District Future – Urban Lab”. It further provides detailed insights into the findings of the qualitative content analysis, which examined the Sustainability Competencies acquired by students through these self-experiments.
It therefore provides in-depth insights into the analysis underlying the paper “Assessing competency development in transformative teaching – A real-world lab case study on Sustainability Self-Experiments”.

Definition and exemplary application of a Sustainability Self-Experiment. This appendix provides an overview of the data and in-depth results from the qualitative content analysis that examines which key competencies for sustainability transformations were fostered through Sustainability Self-Experiments conducted by students in the real-world laboratory “District Future – Urban Lab” between 2018 and 2022.
Related publication: Trenks & Beecroft (2026). Assessing competency development in transformative teaching – A real-world lab case study on Sustainability Self-Experiments. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.