Over the past decade, sustainable consumption has emerged as a field of scholarship and study that has been included in a growing number of degree programs and courses in higher education institutions.

Sustainable consumption teaching is not limited to addressing new content and topics within established teaching-learning formats, but has proved to be a pedagogical field of practice in which new, creative and innovative didactic-methodical approaches are tested in dealing with some fundamental questions of sustainable development.

We are looking for examples of these creative and innovative teaching approaches and methods to include in a textbook on sustainable consumption teaching, which we are currently preparing. These can be anything from an engaging stimulus that you use to kick-off a classroom discussion, a routine that you have established in your course to nurture students’ critical thinking, up to projects, assignments or activities that you have tested in your teaching. For example, the use of mindfulness meditation, storytelling, or drama and improvisation.

We are interested in what surprising, unorthodox, challenging or engaging activities and approaches you use! Please fill out the brief survey below if you are interested in contributing your own creative and/or innovative practice.

This is just a first step. If you would like to be involved further, we will ask you to develop your example and add detail in a later phase and invite you to be a co-contributor to the book (although there is no commitment to this if you would rather not!).

Thank you!
Jen Dyer, Daniel Fischer, Marlyne Sahakian, Gill Seyfang, Jordan King