Educating for Sustainability-as-Flourishing

Peter McGhee () and Patricia Grant ()
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Peter McGhee: Faculty of Business, Economics & Law, Auckland University of Technology
Patricia Grant: Faculty of Business, Economics & Law, Auckland University of Technology

Chapter Chapter 4 in Clean, Green and Responsible?, 2019, pp 47-64 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Business schools are increasingly educating for sustainability, partially in response to the world’s current social and environmental predicament, and partially as a consequence of recognising the significant role business plays in contributing to this perilous state. Much of this education though, is grounded in a ‘business as usual approach’ that views sustainability as a means of improving the bottom line while minimising unsustainability. This chapter describes an undergraduate course for business students that uses sustainability-as-flourishing as a framework for transformational change in student mindsets regarding the foundational structures of society. This aspirational approach goes beyond teaching the status quo to cultivate students as self-actualised individuals who desire a flourishing natural, social and economic system.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21436-4_4

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