Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption

A Guidebook
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-89323-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

Reihe: Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption

This book is a comprehensive guide on how to teach sustainable consumption in higher education. Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption: A Guidebook systematizes the themes, objectives, and theories that characterize sustainable consumption as an educational field.

The first part of the book discusses approaches to teaching and learning sustainable consumption in higher education, including reflections on how learning occurs, to more practical considerations like how to set objectives or assess learning outcomes. The second part of the book is a dive into inspiring examples of what this looks like in a range of contexts and towards different aims – involving 57 diverse contributions by teachers and practitioners. Building on the momentum of a steady increase in courses addressing sustainable consumption over the past decade, this guidebook supports innovative approaches to teaching and learning, while also bringing to the fore conceptual debates around higher education and sustainability.

Overall, this book will be a seminal resource for educators teaching about sustainability and consumption. It will help them to navigate the specifics of sustainable consumption as a field of scholarship, and design their teaching approaches in a more informed, competent, and creative way.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer, Daniel

Seyfang, Gill

Sahakian, Marlyne

Dyer, Jen

King, Jordan

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I Design considerations for teaching and learning sustainable consumption

1 Sustainable consumption, a tricky topic to teach
Marlyne Sahakian, Jordan King, Jen Dyer, Daniel Fischer, and Gill Seyfang

2 Learning theories and pedagogies in teaching sustainable consumption
Daniel Fischer, Jordan King, Marlyne Sahakian, Jen Dyer, and Gill Seyfang

3 Learning objectives for teaching sustainable consumption
Jordan King, Daniel Fischer, Marlyne Sahakian, Jen Dyer, and Gill Seyfang

4 Assessing learning in teaching sustainable consumption
Jordan King, Daniel Fischer, Marlyne Sahakian, Jen Dyer, and Gill Seyfang

PART II Examples of teaching and learning sustainable consumption
Marlyne Sahakian, Jordan King, Jen Dyer, Daniel Fischer, and Gill Seyfang

5 The good life game: bargaining needs and resources
Lisa Hollands and Shirin Betzler

6 A letter to Aadya: uncovering social injustices in fast fashion
Samira Iran and Anja Lisa Hirscher

7 Clothing libraries: on-campus stores as real-world experiments for sustainable fashion
Samira Iran, Anja Lisa Hirscher, and Daniel Fischer

8 How to draw the economy? Putting care and nature back into economic models
Lucie Sovová

9 Powering practices: developing scenarios for energy futures
Tom Hargreaves

10 Speculative fiction for energy futures
Tom Hargreaves and Jos Smith

11 The story of your gadget
Gill Seyfang

12 From trash to treasure! Turning junk into Christmas-time gifts
I-Liang Wahn

13 Practice makes perfect! Exploring how practices cause consumption problems, and are also part of the solution
Marlyne Sahakian and Mallory Xinyu Zhan

14 A playful take on non-financial disclosure processes: speed dating with organizations and frameworks
Georgina Guillen-Hanson

15 Decarbonise! A playful pathfinding approach to a sustainable future
Veronika Kiss and Klára Hajdu

16 Let’s report a future practice: interview roleplay as a way to flesh out alternatives
Lenneke KuiJer

17 Company walk’n’talk: learning by sharing about corporate sustainability practices
Lisa Hollands and Shirin Betzler

18 Asking the (sustainable consumption) professionals!
Eva Heiskanen

19 The supermarket sweep: what do labels (not) tell us?
Gill Seyfang

20 To build or not to build? Roleplay for conflict management
Valerie Brachya

21 Theoretical theater: personifying theoretical ‘Characters’ to facilitate critical thinking
Gill Seyfang and Marlyne Sahakian

22 The change point toolkit for teaching: designing creative interventions
Alison L. Browne, Claire Hoolohan, Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs, and Liz Sharp

23 Consumption detectives: an imagination exercise
Shirin Betzler, Jessica Jung, Lisa Hollands, and Regina Kempen

24 Speak up! Debating critical voices
Shirin Betzler and Lisa Hollands

25 The clothesline for sustainability: can individual actions contribute to strong sustainable consumption?
Sylvia Lorek

26 Go Bananas! What everyday foods tell us about sustainability
Sally Russell

27 Creature of habit!
Cornelia Mayr

28 The power of one? Engaging students to reflect on individual agency to confront environmental issues
Emily Huddart Kennedy

29 Pizza policy misto: our perfect recipe for sustainable food consumption
Sylvia Lorek

30 Contemplating consumption: a meditation and mindfulness exercise
Manisha Anantharaman and Daniel Fischer

31 Walk’n’Write: ref lecting on efficiency, consistency, and sufficiency
Shirin Betzler and Lisa Hollands

32 It’s all about the message: promoting sustainability through communication design
Doreen Donovan

33 Second-hand clothing experienced first-hand: sustainable consumption through situated learning
Heike Derwanz

34 Dressed for sustainability success: a capsule wardrobe project
Iva Jestratijevic

35 Listen up! The role of podcasts for understanding environmental issues as a social construct
Juliet Fall and Karine Duplan

36 Create a website: a hands-on approach to communicate sustainable consumption
Karin Dobernig

37 Organizing for impact: strategic planning and community collaboration for social change towards sustainable consumption
Manisha Anantharaman and Suzanne Schmidt

38 Who knows where the money goes? Using a spending diary to reflect on consumption habits
Meredith Katz

39 Learning to change myself: personal approaches to sustainable consumption
Pascal Frank

40 Extracting sustainability: exposing the impacts from mining to supply the electronics industry
Robert Rattle

41 Capturing sustainable energy solutions on camera
Tom Hargreaves

42 Packed with sustainability!
Urška Vrabic-Brodnjak

43 Uncovering economies of sustainability: looking at alternatives to the status quo
Helen Holmes

44 Learning from the past? A socio-historical approach to food practices
Stefan Wahlen

45 Using zombies to communicate climate change!
Petra Bättig-Frey and Urs Müller

46 The 21-day sustainability challenge
Carmen Valor

47 Whodunnit? Role-playing to understand stakeholder perspectives through corporate scandals
Georgina Guillen-Hanson

48 Brave new world? Getting in a digitalized and globalized state of mind
Piergiorgio Degli Esposti

49 A change is gonna come: designing campus interventions to promote behavior change for sustainable consumption
Jordan King, Daniel Fischer, and Katja Brundiers

50 I can’t get no satisfaction: deliberating needs and satisfiers in sustainable consumption
Daniel Fischer, Jordan King, and Carlos R. Casanova

51 Business Origami! Piecing together product life cycles in the product-service system
Kersty Hobson

52 Covering one’s tracks: an ecological footprint game and debate
Karin Dobernig and Karl-Michael Brunner

53 Mobility, what opportunities for urban development and public policies?
Marlyne Sahakian

54 From field research to design fiction: from clarifying the present, to designing the future
Nicolas Nova

55 What we eat and why: narratives of food justice
Sunayana Ganguly and Shreelata Rao Sheshadri

56 How hard can it be to change practices?
Margit Keller and Triin Vihalemm

57 An intra-active exhibition on feminist theory
Tullia Jack

58 What I am wondering …: a teacher training program on how to find and answer questions of sustainable consumption
Antonietta Di Giulio

59 Feel and think! Teaching aspiring school teachers to teach slow fashion
Heike Derwanz

60 Future voyaging: the power of imagining the future today
Frederikke Oldin and Charlotte Louise Jensen

61 Don’t just learn the lesson, live the lesson: study abroad trips for collaborative and community-based sustainability
Ashley Colby

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Fischer is Associate Professor for Consumer Communication and Sustainability at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. His research studies communication and learning interventions to advance more sustainable lifestyles. In his teaching, he strives to increase reflexivity in students to empower them to re-shape their relationships with the consumer societies into which they have been born, encultured, and socialized in.

Marlyne Sahakian is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Geneva. She teaches and does research on sustainable consumption in relation to food, energy, and wellbeing, and is a founding member of SCORAI Europe, a research network for sustainable consumption. She is the Director of a Master’s program called Sustainable Societies and Social Change, and strives to give students the critical and practical competencies for tackling sustainability problems.

Jordan King is a doctoral candidate in the School of Sustainability and College of Global Futures at Arizona State University. His work focuses on advancing innovations in cultivating and assessing the sustainability competencies of learners. In his teaching, he aims to motivate students to link inner transformations with systemic change for sustainable futures.

Jen Dyer is Associate Professor in Sustainability at the University of Leeds and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Jen enjoys using creative teaching methods to inspire and empower her students. Her research focuses on social inclusion and amplifying diverse voices around sustainability.

Gill Seyfang is Associate Professor of Sustainable Consumption in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, UK. She researches grassroots innovations for sustainable development and is a National Teaching Fellow (2017).