The Impact of Teaching Interventions in Education for Sustainable Development - An Experimental Case Study

• Autorzy: Johannes Platje , Aniela Styś , Markus Will , Wim Lambrechts
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Questionnaire research can be used as a teaching instrument and to measure the impacts of education for sustainable development. This paper presents a case study of a teaching intervention regarding students' perception of operations and (supply) management fragilities, such as dependency on few customers or suppliers; difficult to find employees; and low probability, high impact events for business sustainability. The teaching intervention focused on side effects of innovations, leading to vulnerabilities that can threaten the existence of an enterprise. This research was carried out in the context of the capacity for creating an Early Warning System for small probability, high impact events. The following issues are addressed in the paper: 1). The impact of the teaching intervention on students' perceptions; 2). Differences in perception between non-attending (N = 128) and attending students (pretest N = 139; post-test N = 119).(original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Sustainable development; Didactics

PL

Rozwój zrównoważony; Dydaktyka

• Czasopismo: Central European Review of Economics and Management
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: 6
• Numer: nr 3
• Strony: 69--86

Twórcy

autor

Johannes Platje

• WSB University in Wrocław, Poland

autor

Aniela Styś

• WSB University in Wrocław, Poland

autor

Markus Will

• University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Germany

autor

Wim Lambrechts

• Open University of the Netherlands

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DOI

https://10.29015/cerem.957