Interdisciplinary Learning about People, Planet, and Profit in Germany

Autor/inn/en	Alberts, Heike C.; Niendorf, Bruce D.
Titel	Interdisciplinary Learning about People, Planet, and Profit in Germany
Quelle	In: Geography Teacher, 18 (2021) 3-4, S.158-163 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1933 8341
DOI	10.1080/19338341.2021.1931918
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Interdisciplinary Approach; Partnerships in Education; Sustainability; Geography Instruction; Business Administration Education; Cultural Awareness; Cultural Differences; Study Abroad; Global Approach; Wisconsin; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Nachhaltigkeit; Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Kultureller Unterschied; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Globales Denken; Deutschland
Abstract	For several years, the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh partnered with a manufacturing company in Germany that is well known for its sustainable business practices and generates revenues in excess of 2 billion Euro annually. This partnership encompassed several programs, including providing training for the company's junior management in the Business School of the university and a week-long Sustainability Academy with American and German students at the company headquarters in Germany. A week-long program in Berlin was added to the Sustainability Academy to enable American students to learn more about and experience Germany before the week at the company headquarters. The program was shared between the College of Letters and Science (COLS) and the College of Business (COB), half of the students came from COLS and half from COB. One geography professor and one finance professor were selected by their respective deans to attend the trip. The geography professor was assigned to the program partly because she is a native German, so it was a coincidence that the program included geography and business. Throughout the program, which has been led three times, there were continued benefits of combining disciplines. Both geography and business contributed to students' understanding of people, planet, and profit in diverse ways and challenged them to look at things through different lenses and consider the impacts on all, not just the most obvious or immediate stakeholders. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01