Neue Publikation in: The International Journal of Management Education

Die ehemaligen Mitarbeiterinnen Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Ivanova und Dr. Julia Hufnagel veröffentlichen gemeinsam mit Charlie Yang in The International Journal of Management ihre Publikation "Using contemplative photography in transformative sustainability management education: Pedagogical applications in the United States, Russia, and Germany".

Developing a sustainability mindset requires a transdisciplinary approach to business education that integrates a rational-analytic mode of thinking and an emotive-holistic understanding of the human mind. In order to cultivate the sustainability mindset of business students, we have designed a contemplative art-based project involving the creation of an electronic portfolio which consists of a student's digital photographs. We have integrated it into our teaching of management courses in the United States, Russia, and Germany, respectively. The project aims to enable business students to become more visually attentive and environmentally conscious, so that they will pay close attention to the process of building more sustainable relationships within their natural and social environments. From the interpretative phenomenological perspective, we have analyzed the students' e-portfolios in order to understand how business students make sense of environmental and human sustainability. While envisioning more transformative sustainability management education, we have also discussed the pedagogical implications of making the e-portfolios for enhancing the students' understanding of the sustainability mindset.

Yang, C., Ivanova, E. & Hufnagel, J. (2021). Using contemplative photography in transformative sustainability management education: Pedagogical applications in the United States, Russia, and Germany. The International Journal of Management Education, 19(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2021.100568.