Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption
How can you effectively teach a tricky topic like sustainable consumption in your classroom? This volume explores this question in two steps: part 1 offers introductory chapters, part 2 practical examples from classrooms from across the globe.
Book Abstract:
This book is a comprehensive guide on how to teach sustainable consumption in higher education. Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption: A Guidebook systematizes the themes, objectives, and theories that characterize sustainable consumption as an educational field.
The first part of the book discusses approaches to teaching and learning sustainable consumption in higher education, including reflections on how learning occurs, to more practical considerations like how to set objectives or assess learning outcomes. The second part of the book is a dive into inspiring examples of what this looks like in a range of contexts and towards different aims – involving 57 diverse contributions by teachers and practitioners. Building on the momentum of a steady increase in courses addressing sustainable consumption over the past decade, this guidebook supports innovative approaches to teaching and learning, while also bringing to the fore conceptual debates around higher education and sustainability.
Overall, this book will be a seminal resource for educators teaching about sustainability and consumption. It will help them to navigate the specifics of sustainable consumption as a field of scholarship, and design their teaching approaches in a more informed, competent, and creative way.
The book features several chapters with contributions from SETRI-SERG:
- Chapter 1 on Sustainable Consumption, a Tricky Topic to Teach (authors: Sahakian, M., King, J. A., Fischer, D., Dyer, J., & Seyfang, G.)
- Chapter 2 on Learning Theories and Pedagogy in Teaching Sustainable Consumption (authors: Fischer, D., King, J. A., Sahakian, M., Dyer, J., & Seyfang, G.).
- Chapter 3 on Learning Objectives for Teaching Sustainable Consumption (authors: King, J. A., Fischer, D., Sahakian, M., Dyer, J., & Seyfang, G.).
- Chapter 4 on Assessing Learning in Teaching Sustainable Consumption (authors: King, J. A., Fischer, D., Sahakian, M., Dyer, J., & Seyfang, G.)
- Part 2 of the book offers Examples of teaching and learning sustainable consumption (authors: Sahakian, M., King, J. A., Fischer, D., Dyer, J., & Seyfang, G.)
- Teaching example on Clothing Libraries: on-campus stores as real-world experiments for sustainable fashion (authors: Iran, S., Hirscher, A., & Fischer, D.)
- Teaching example on Contemplating Consumption: A meditation and mindfulness exercise (authors: Anantharaman, M., & Fischer, D.).
- Teaching example on A change is gonna come! Designing campus interventions to promote behavior change for sustainable consumption (authors: King, J. A., Fischer, D., & Brundiers, K.).
- Teaching example on I can’t get no satisfaction! Deliberating needs and satisfiers in sustainable consumption (authors: Fischer, D., King, J. A., & Casanova, C. R.)
More information on the book can be found on the Routledge website.
Bibliographic Reference:
Fischer, D., Sahakian, M., King, J. A., Dyer, J., & Seyfang, G. (Eds.) (2023). Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption: A Guidebook (1st). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003018537
