Teaching for Sustainability: The Role of (Benefit) Corporations

Autor/in	van Tol, Jason
Titel	Teaching for Sustainability: The Role of (Benefit) Corporations
Quelle	In: Geographical Education, 30 (2017), S.24-30 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0085-0969
Schlagwörter	Sustainability; Geography Instruction; Business Education; Sustainable Development; Teaching Methods; Corporations; Comparative Analysis; Curriculum Research; Operations Research; Organizational Theories; Corporate Support; Role Perception; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltigkeit; Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; Wirtschaftserziehung; Wirtschaftspädagogik; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Unternehmen; Curriculum; Research; Curriculumreform; Lehrplan; Forschung; Organisationstheorie; Role conception; Rollenverständnis; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	This article explores the role that corporations can play in the creation or failure of a sustainable society. A review of the concept of sustainability in the Australian Curriculum: Geography is made and then linked to a comparison of the legal framework guiding business activities of traditional corporations and those of B Corporations, which are guided by their own separate legislation. Business activities of a particular B Corporation in Australia, and other profit-oriented businesses in the same sector of the economy, are then compared in terms of four earth functions listed in the Australian Curriculum to determine if one is more sustainable than the other. This comparison concludes that the B Corporation is more sustainable than a traditional profit-oriented corporation in several respects, though it is not sustainable absolutely. The example explored is linked to curriculum outcomes and suggestions are made as to how teachers might apply this content and analysis when teaching for sustainability in their own classes. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01