Teaching sustainability: complexity and compromises
| Autor: | Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Stephanie Perkiss, Bonnie Amelia Dean, Pilar Acosta, Hannah Jun, Alec Wersun, Stephanos Anastasiadis, Belinda Gibbons, Leopold Bayerlein |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Higher education
business.industry 05 social sciences 050301 education Globe Cognitive reframing Empirical research medicine.anatomical_structure Order (exchange) 0502 economics and business Sustainability ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION medicine Normative Engineering ethics Sociology business 0503 education Curriculum 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education. 13:272-286 |
| ISSN: | 2050-7003 |
| Popis: | PurposeSustainability is one of the leading challenges of our age, and higher education plays a vital role in supporting the implementation of sustainability initiatives. There has been substantial progress in business schools introducing sustainability into courses with extant literature detailing case studies of sustainability education and student perceptions of their learning. The purpose of this paper is to address the gap in literature from educators' perspectives on their experiences of introducing sustainability teaching using specific teaching tools for sustainability.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents a case study on a sustainability teaching tool, WikiRate, that was embedded into business and management courses at seven higher education institutions from across the globe. Interviews were conducted after course delivery to gain insights into the practical challenges of designing and implementing a sustainability education activity.FindingsThe findings show that educators perceive sustainability as a complex issue, presenting a challenge to teaching in university systems whose normative curricula are rooted in instrumental problem-solving. Furthermore, educators described challenges to their own learning in order to implement sustainability into curricula including the need for compromises and adaptions.Originality/valueThis empirical study reports on educators' experiences embedding sustainability into their courses through an innovative teaching tool, WikiRate. This paper has implications for reframing how we can approach sustainability education and presents discussion ways to teach complexity without reduction or simplification. |
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