{"title":"Teaching to Save the Planet: The Challenges Ahead for Instructors, Business Schools, and Universities","authors":"Rae André","doi":"10.1177/10525629241269035","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this article I review trends in teaching environmental sustainability over 50 years in the Journal of Management Education (JME) to help instructors and institutions develop effective pedagogy for this complex and consequential subject. Given the current planetary emergency many instructors now grapple with how to teach change in societal and global systems. Already they have moved the sustainability field forward by integrating climate science with management topics and enhancing integrative learning that builds individual student autonomy, agency, and leadership. This examination of the JME literature suggests that at least three fundamental challenges remain: (1) applying systems theory to frame change and make meaningful pedagogical choices, (2) balancing traditional and experiential pedagogies in light of the need to teach about macro level systems, and (3) teaching sustainability for the planet in an academic sector that mainly values sustainability for business organizations. These challenges are inspiring critical thinking that is driving the field forward. At the same time, some recent research suggests that business schools may be unlikely to recast their missions to encompass societal change. As a result, concerned educators may turn increasingly to their universities, with their broader educational missions, to develop curricula that will help save the planet.","PeriodicalId":47308,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Management Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Management Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10525629241269035","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this article I review trends in teaching environmental sustainability over 50 years in the Journal of Management Education (JME) to help instructors and institutions develop effective pedagogy for this complex and consequential subject. Given the current planetary emergency many instructors now grapple with how to teach change in societal and global systems. Already they have moved the sustainability field forward by integrating climate science with management topics and enhancing integrative learning that builds individual student autonomy, agency, and leadership. This examination of the JME literature suggests that at least three fundamental challenges remain: (1) applying systems theory to frame change and make meaningful pedagogical choices, (2) balancing traditional and experiential pedagogies in light of the need to teach about macro level systems, and (3) teaching sustainability for the planet in an academic sector that mainly values sustainability for business organizations. These challenges are inspiring critical thinking that is driving the field forward. At the same time, some recent research suggests that business schools may be unlikely to recast their missions to encompass societal change. As a result, concerned educators may turn increasingly to their universities, with their broader educational missions, to develop curricula that will help save the planet.
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The Journal of Management Education (JME) encourages contributions that respond to important issues in management education. The overriding question that guides the journal’s double-blind peer review process is: Will this contribution have a significant impact on thinking and/or practice in management education? Contributions may be either conceptual or empirical in nature, and are welcomed from any topic area and any country so long as their primary focus is on learning and/or teaching issues in management or organization studies. Although our core areas of interest are organizational behavior and management, we are also interested in teaching and learning developments in related domains such as human resource management & labor relations, social issues in management, critical management studies, diversity, ethics, organizational development, production and operations, sustainability, etc. We are open to all approaches to scholarly inquiry that form the basis for high quality knowledge creation and dissemination within management teaching and learning.