Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the publication on April 3rd, 2007 of
TEACHING BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY 2
CASES, SIMULATIONS AND EXPERENTIAL APPROACHES
Edited by Chris Galea
Saint Francis Xavier University, Canada
April 2007 208 pp 234 x 156 mm
Hardback ISBN 978-1-874719-73-1 £35.00 USD65.00 EUR52.50
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To place an order for this title at a discount of 10%, view abstracts
or to view ‘Introduction’ by Chris Galea and ’Getting It: Understanding
the Science and Principles behind Sustainability’ by Darcy Hitchcock
and Marsha Willard, AXIS Performance Advisors Inc., USA online,
please visit the Greenleaf website:
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All book chapters are also available individually as PDFs.
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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 — 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chris Galea, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Part I: Active learning teaching exercises
1. Getting Out There: Incorporating Site Visits and Industry
Assessments in Pollution Prevention and Sustainability Education
Kim Fowler, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, and Jill
Engel-Cox, Battelle Memorial Institute, USA
2. Different planets: belief, denial and courage. The Role of Emotion
in Turning Learning into Action
Penny Walker, Independent Consultant, UK
3. Sustainability in Business Education: The Leisure and Tourism
Curriculum
Shirley Eber
4. Getting It: Understanding the Science and Principles behind
Sustainability
Darcy Hitchcock and Marsha Willard, AXIS Performance Advisors Inc., USA
Part II: Hands-on exercises/activities
5. The Sustainability Card Game
Darcy Hitchcock and Marsha Willard, AXIS Performance Advisors Inc., USA
6. The Multi-organisation Business Simulation
Darcy Hitchcock and Marsha Willard, AXIS Performance Advisors Inc., USA
7. Personalising Sustainability: An Interactive Activity to Reinforce
the Presentation of The Natural Step (TNS)
Joshua Skov, Good Company, USA
Part III: Case studies
8. Easter Island: A Case Study in Non-sustainability
David K. Foot, University of Toronto, Canada
9. Suncor Energy: A Comprehensive Approach to Sustainability
Peter A. Stanwick and Sarah D. Stanwick, Auburn University, USA
10. Perspectives on Accounting and Society. Teaching Accountants
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A Case Study
Kumba Jallow, De Montfort University, UK
11. The Anti-Junk Mail Kit
Chris Galea, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada, and
John MacKinnon, Deloitte & Touche, Canada
12. The War of the Woods: A Forestry Giant Seeks Peace
Monika I. Winn, Faculty of Business, University of Victoria, Canada,
and Charlene Zietsma, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of
Western Ontario, Canada
Part IV: Role-play simulations
13. Sustainable Games People Play: Teaching Sustainability Skills with
the Aid of the Role-play ‘NordWestPower’
Anke Truscheit and Christoph Otte, University of Oldenburg, Germany
14. Using Experiential Simulation to Teach Sustainability
Susan Svoboda, Realia Group, USA
15. Teaching Process Sustainability: A Role-playing Case Focused on
Finding New Solutions to a Waste-water Management Problem
David Annandale and Angus Morrison-Saunders, Murdoch University,
Australia
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To place an order for this title at a discount of 10%, view abstracts
or to view ‘Introduction’ by Chris Galea and ’Getting It: Understanding
the Science and Principles behind Sustainability’ by Darcy Hitchcock
and Marsha Willard, AXIS Performance Advisors Inc., USA online,
please visit the Greenleaf website:
http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com
or go directly to the book at:
http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/productdetail.kmod?productid=2483
All book chapters are also available individually as PDFs.
You can also request a review copy or inspection copy from this site -
see the home page:
http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com
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Jayney Bown
Greenleaf Publishing
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