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‘Education for Sustainable Development: a springboard for innovation, student enrichment and partnership’ UWE Conference Workshop: Multi- disciplinarity and multiculturalism in sustainability education: pedagogy of risk and ethics. Presenters / Facilitators

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  1. ‘Education for Sustainable Development: a springboard for innovation, student enrichment and partnership’ UWE Conference Workshop:Multi-disciplinarity and multiculturalism in sustainability education: pedagogy of risk and ethics Presenters / Facilitators FBL teaching and research team: Svetlana Cicmil, Benoit Dutilleul, Ben Pontin, Derek Braddon, , Vanessa Iwowo Fabian Frenzel with MBA students and researchers: Stephen Batson, Nigel Stone, Elisabeth Reiersen

  2. Executive MBA: Risk and Sustainability in Global OperationsOur pedagogic aims and convictions • Refocusing attention on sustainability crisis • as a complex alarming issue • not just an economic-scientific problem but a moral one • Exposing consequences of the ontological separation between the socio-economic and the ecological • introducing ethical concerns and risks associated with the dominant focus on infinite growth and technological / scientific solutions to ecological crisis • Humans/organisations-IN-nature vs humans/organisations-AND-nature • Critical pedagogy informed by moral philosophy • Discussing the process that has led to unsustainable world • Broadening the focus to embrace concerns of values, vulnerabilities and (in)equality • Ethically addressing both the causes and solutions to the crisis

  3. Executive MBA: Risk and Sustainability in Global OperationsKey Anticipated Challenges • ‘Sustainability’ – a non-homogenous subject • academic content, • practical application; relevance; • perspectives and personal positions • MBA programme • Vested / powerful interests, tradition and expectations • ‘utilitarian’ culture (advantage, ambition, elite status, business) • Micro-diversity in the class, in the moment • Learning process - resistance and anxiety

  4. Executive MBA: Risk and Sustainability in Global OperationsInnovative pedagogic methods • Disciplinary diversity of the teaching team • Economics, Politics, Philosophy, Law, Management, Sociology, Engineering • Visual means • Drawings, Art, Poetry and Film • Attention to language • Sense-making; negotiation of meaning • Study trip • Being in nature; Intrinsic value • Discussion of future scenarios: Classes in the eco-protected areas • Exposure, reflection and respect toward socio-cultural and ecological diversity • Humanity and healthy relationships with others • - Building shared understanding • Focusing on values, humanity and moral responsibility • Considering alternatives

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