Revolutionizing Sustainability Education: Stories and Tools of Mindset Transformation - Paperback

by Ekaterina Ivanova (Editor), Isabel Rimanoczy (Editor)

There is growing awareness among leading responsible management scholars and practitioners that understanding global wicked problems is insufficient in effecting lasting engagement and changed behaviors. Research indicates that to impact behavior, the mindset has to shift, which leaves the question: How do you shift a mindset?

This book guides educators and practitioners, their students and colleagues to take action on finding urgent solutions to the grand challenges stated in the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. A Sustainability Mindset is a way of thinking and being that results from a broad understanding of the ecosystem, from social sensitivity and an introspective focus on our personal values and higher self, which finds its expression in actions for the greater good. By promoting a mindset shift, educators in very diverse contexts are laying the foundation for a resilient future. The book presents a collection of over 150 student voices depicting a transformative experience and a shift in their mindset. Seventeen educator/student teams of contributing authors from across five continents describe the activity that prompted those students' reflections, and the conceptual frameworks that played a role in the selection of the learning goals and activities.

The book is written with academic and corporate educators, reflective practitioners, consultants, coaches, trainers and students in mind, and is invaluable in guiding the process of developing a sustainability mindset among participants in the training process.

Author Biography

Ekaterina Ivanova is an Associate Professor in the Department of Strategic and International Management at the Graduate School of Business at the HSE University in Moscow. She has over 15 years' experience as an applied and academic researcher, non-profit executive, and educator focusing on ethics, aesthetics, responsible business and sustainability mindset. As a co-chair of the PRME Working Group on the Sustainability Mindset, AIM2Flourish professor (Flourish Prizes 2021 for the SDGs 4 & 17) and founder of the Sustainability Navigator Telegram Channel she is creating an impact for a better world through knowledge transfer, outreach and action.

Isabel Rimanoczy is author of Big Bang Being (2014), Stop Teaching (2016) and The Sustainability Mindset Principles (2021). She is the Convener of the PRME Working Group on the Sustainability Mindset, a cohort of over 170 academics from 165 universities on five continents promoting innovation and a sustainability mindset. Global Ambassador of AIM2Flourish and Fellow of Schumacher College, more recently, she participated in creating the Sustainability Mindset Indicator, a personal development tool for individuals and educators.