All-Academy PDW on Sustainable Business Education

Workshop Overview

The main objective of this Professional Development Workshop is to attract the attention of business educators around the world to the growing mismatch between the needs of future generations of business managers and scholars and the predominant model of education in universities today. Many urgent calls for changing business education have emerged in the last decade. The focus of this PDW, though, is somewhat different, since its organizers and facilitators would like to consider the impacts of today’s education on managers and scholars as it may affect future generations. To put it more directly, the main objective of this PDW is to ask and attempt to provide possible answers to the following questions: is current business education sustainable? Is it meeting the needs of current managers and scholars without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs? What should be done to ensure sustainability of business education? While many universities are incorporating concepts of sustainability to make their programs’ content to be more “green”, the organizers, facilitators, and participants of this PDW will argue that there is a strong need to question not only content but management processes and learning methods. Specifically, in the workshop, three aspects of what can help make business education more sustainable will be examined in detail: the management of business schools using sustainable approaches, the curriculum of business education, and the pedagogy of business education in the future.

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Comment by Edward Kingsley Trezise on July 3, 2009 at 12:09pm

This appears to be a very timely and relevant workshop. too far to travel for an afternoon! :-) but we here at Gloucestershire University have developed a Business Management Field that has sustainability at the core and the University is 4th in the league national tables for sustainable universites. I would be very happy to exchange views ideas on the topics in the workshope - I hope it is well attended and successful.

Best
Edward