An exploration of student learning for sustainability through the WikiRate student engagement project

Authors

Alec Wersun, Glasgow Caledonian University
Bonnie Amelia Dean, University of WollongongFollow
Richard Mills, University of Cambridge
Stephanie Perkiss, University of WollongongFollow
Pilar Acosta, Universidad Icesi
Stephanos Anastasiadis, Royal Holloway University of London
Belinda Kathlyn Gibbons, University of WollongongFollow
Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad EAFIT
Theresa Heithaus, WikiRate
Hannah Jun, Ewha Womans University
Roman H. Mesicek, IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems
Leopold Bayerlein, University of New England

RIS ID

137932

Publication Details

Wersun, A., Dean, B. Amelia., Mills, R., Perkiss, S., Acosta, P., Anastasiadis, S., Gibbons, B., Gonzalez-Perez, M. Alejandra., Heithaus, T., Jun, H., Mesicek, R. H. & Bayerlein, L. (2019). An exploration of student learning for sustainability through the WikiRate student engagement project. The International Journal of Management Education, 17 (3), 100313-1-100313-12.

Abstract

The launch of the UN Global Compact's Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME¹) in 2007 can be seen as a widespread acknowledgement that students of business and management need a form of education that enables them to make a positive contribution to both business and society. PRME's aim of realising the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through responsible management education is built on six guiding Principles, designed to encourage business schools and universities to recognise their role as change agents and champions of sustainable development. Consequently over 700 signatories to PRME have committed to adapt their institutional strategies, curricula, research agendas, and external engagement activities to "develop the capabilities of students to be future generators of sustainable value for business and society at large and to work for an inclusive and sustainable global economy" (PRME, Principle 1²).