Backcasting for sustainability – An approach to education for sustainable development in management. Issue 3 (November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ziegler, Rafael; Porto-de-Oliveira, Lya-Cynthia
• Is Part Of: International journal of management education. Volume 20:Issue 3(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-11
• Subjects: Business education -- Periodicals; Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Periodicals; 650.0711
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijme.2022.100701
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1472-8117

Abstract

Highlights: Backcasting invites thinking from future visions about possible pathways to achieve desirable futures. This paper proposes a backcasting approach for sustainability education in management. Our study shows the approach to advance core sustainability competencies, specifically anticipation and collaboration. Service-learning concretizes course material, and enables place-based learning via the interaction with social innovators. Backcasting in education is a response to current unsustainability: utopia dynamizes action, and action dynamizes utopia.