Integrating Environmental Education Into Business Schools' Educational Plans in Finland |
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| Authors: | Liisa Rohweder |
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| Institution: | 1. Helsinki Business Polytechnic, Rautatiel?isenkatu 5, 00520, Helsinki, Finland
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| Abstract: | Environmental education in business school context has a significant effect on the way companies view environmental problems.
Business schools train the future decision makers who can, with their own attitudes and practical actions, influence the contribution
of business to the process of ecologically sustainable development. However, several studies show that no systematic thinking
has been undertaken within business education as to what the educational prerequisites of the process of ecologically sustainable
development are. In this article, I will firstly analyze by means of environmental education how business polytechnics in
Finland have taken into consideration ecologically sustainable development. Secondly, I will raise the starting points for
the development of the implementation of environmental education as part of the business schools▪ educational plans. Integrating
environmental education into the vocational courses is identified as being one of the most effective ways of increasing the
effectiveness of environmental education. Thirdly, the emphasis is on identification of barriers of integrating environmental
education into the educational plans of business polytechnics. Theoretically, the article is attached to the objectives and
learning concepts of environmental education and to educational planning theory in general. The empirical data are based on
interviews I conducted 1999–2000 in all Finnish polytechnics offering business education. My article increases theoretical
and practical understanding of how environmental education should be implemented in business education and how the current
situation could be developed.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | business school curriculum educational plan environmental education integration sustainable development |
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