Climate Change Education: Preparing Future and Current Business Leaders: A Workshop Summary by Martin Storksdieck

Author:Martin Storksdieck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2014-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

Sundaram noted these courses all frame climate change or sustainability as a business, rather than a corporate responsibility, issue. Various panelists affirmed the perspective that climate change provides an important context within which concrete management skills and tools can be taught.

Sundaram discussed the relationship between course design and student experience (see Figure 4-1). Individual courses that offer bundled or focused content on one end of the spectrum contrast with infused content across the curriculum. The former provides opportunities for understanding the role of climate change in considerable depth, but invariably focuses on a limited range of business issues (such as finance). The latter allows students to see the implications of climate change across business issues (finance, strategy, operations, etc.), but breadth occurs at the expense of depth and specific capacity development. Expertise in climate science and climate change might be limiting the ability and willingness of faculty to tackle the topic in the classroom. Developing this expertise might be time-consuming or otherwise prohibitive, although it allows focused and highly controlled coverage of climate change within the context of the course. Relevant expertise can be brought in from the outside (e.g., via co-teaching), though content might then be less specific or targeted, and business school instructors might have less control over the content. These two dimensions (infuse across the curriculum versus cover in a separate course, and in-house vs. external expertise) create four quadrants. Which (combination) of those quadrants might best address the needs and specific goals of a particular business school, he explained, will vary by local conditions.

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