Teaching Business Sustainability Vol. 2
Subtitle: Cases, Simulations and Experiential Approaches
By: Chris Galea
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781351281201
Subjects: Social responsibility of business; Business enterprises; Environmental aspects; Sustainable development; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Business Ethics; EDUCATION; Adult & Continuing Education
Description: "If there is one area of business education that requires out-of-the-box, creative thinking it is sustainability. Business sustainability, because of its relative newness (and hence uncertainty), its dependence on interdisciplinary thinking, its need to work with different stakeholders and its non-traditional operating approaches, demands that we train our managers in wholly new ways. This need for new and non-traditional teaching approaches is reflected in this collection of unorthodox teaching pedagogies. The underlying philosophy behind them is that deep learning for sustainability needs ultimately to be experiential: that is, learning while doing rather than a passive absorption of facts and figures. While much of the underlying theory of sustainability may be taught using more traditional lecture and reading approaches, the implementation of true business sustainability requires students to experiment - to win and lose - while grappling with the myriad challenges and frustrations posed by sustainability: the same challenges and frustrations, one might add, that companies intent on implementing sustainability face on a daily basis in the world in which they operate. The aim is to create a learning environment where students themselves take control over their own learning. This book - a companion volume to Teaching Business Sustainability 1: From Theory to Practice (Greenleaf Publishing, 2004) - focuses on four main categories of experiential pedagogy: case studies, hands-on exercises, role-play simulations and active learning teaching exercises. It includes contributions from a range of experts in global sustainability education who provide their expertise with class-hardened teaching materials. Teaching Business Sustainability 2 will be an invaluable resource both for educators working in a wide range of academic disciplines, looking for inspiration and guidance on how to teach business sustainability, as well as for organisations looking to reinvigorate internal management education programmes to factor in corporate responsibility and sustainability issues."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Active-learning teaching exercises --; title: chapter Introduction  -- Chris Galea; title: chapter 1 Getting out there --; title: Incorporating Site Visits and Industry Assessments in Pollution Prevention and Sustainability Education  -- Kim Fowler Jill Engel-Cox; title: chapter 2 Different planets: belief, denial and courage --; title: The Role of Emotion on Turning Learning into Action*  -- Penny Walker; title: chapter 3 Sustainability in business education --; title: The Leisure and Tourism Curriculum  -- Shirley Eber; title: chapter 4 Getting it --; title: Understanding the science and Principles Behind Sustainability  -- Darcy Hitchcock Marsha Willard; title: part, II Hands-on exercises/activities --; title: chapter 5 The Sustainability Card Game  -- Darcy Hitchcock Marsha Willard; title: chapter 6 The Multi-organisation Business Simulation  -- Darcy Hitchcock Marsha Willard; title: chapter 7 Personalising sustainability --; title: An Interactive Activity to Reinforce the Presentation of the Natural Step (TNS)  -- Joshua Skov; title: part, III Case studies --; title: chapter 8 Easter Island --; title: A Case Study in Non-Sustainability*  -- David K. Foot; title: chapter 9 Suncor Energy --; title: A Comprehensive Approach to Sustainability  -- Peter A. Stanwick Sarah D. Stanwick; title: chapter 10 Perspectives on accounting and society --; title: Teaching Accountants Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A Case Study  -- Kumba Jallow; title: chapter 11 The Anti-Junk Mail Kit  -- Chris Galea John MacKinnon; title: chapter 12 The war of the woods --; title: A Forestry Giant Seeks Peace*  -- Monika I. Winn Charlene Zietsma; title: part, IV Role-play simulations --; title: chapter 13 Sustainable games people play --; title: Teaching Sustainability Skills with the Aid of the Role-Play 'Nordwestpower'*  -- Anke Truscheit Christoph Otte; title: chapter 14 Using experiential simulation to teach sustainability  -- Susan Svoboda John Whalen; title: chapter 15 Teaching process sustainability --; title: A Role-Playing Case Focused on Finding New Solutions to a Waste-Water Management Problem -- David Annandale Angus Morrison-Saunders.