sustainability teaching for impact: how to inspire and engage students using drama

Sustainability Teaching for Impact is an essential step-by-step, practical guide for those wanting to inspire and engage higher education students in the areas of sustainability.

The book encourages new and experienced university teachers across disciplines to adopt and adapt dramatic methods, with a view to inspire and engage their students. It introduces applied drama and performance arts methods that have been tried-and-tested across disciplines to deepen and broaden sustainability knowledge, skills, mindsets, and practices. Sustainability Teaching for Impact assumes no previous experience of the methods, as university teachers - with and without experience in drama - carefully walk you through some of the teaching practices they have used to create an impact in their teaching.

This book is for higher and further education tutors who wish to build on their experience, and deliver exciting and accessible classroom techniques and practices that are highly interactive, creative, and engaging to help further the teaching of sustainability.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Tony Wall is professor at Liverpool Business School, UK, National Teaching Fellow, and holds visiting professor positions at Stockholm University in Sweden and Phu Xuan University in Vietnam. His research is ranked #1 globally in ＂management development＂ (Google Scholar) and his impact was independently judged as ’world leading’ (REF, 2021).

Eva Hallgren’s research focuses on process drama and role taking applied across different settings including pre-schools, schools, psychiatric wards, and teacher education. Questions about sustainability and power are always of interest to her. Eva also teaches Drama in Education at Stockholm University on different levels and supervises PhD students.

Eva Österlind is professor in applied drama at Stockholm University, Sweden. She teaches drama in teacher education, leads a masters programme in drama and applied theatre, and supervises PhD students. Her current research focuses on the potential of drama for learning, especially in connection to Education for Sustainable Development.