TY - UNPB
T1 - Engaging Students with Sustainable Development Goals
T2 - A Performative Educational Toolkit with Virtual Reality Simulations, Letters to the Future and an SDG Strategy Assignment
AU - Schippers, Michaéla
AU - van Tulder, Rob
AU - Louwerse, Max M.
AU - Panas, Desiderio C.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) of the UN aim to realize the Sustainable Development Goals through responsible management education practices. Recent reports however show that many SDGs are not being met, and there is even transgression on several key goals. In order to assure bottom-up involvement with the SDGs, there is a clear need for an evidence-based performative educational toolkit. We propose such an evidence-informed teaching package to increase student engagement with the SDGs, with concrete educational artefacts as an outcome. Specifically, the performative package, based on theories of positive psychology, is aimed at inducing intentions and actual behavioral change, using self-transcendent goals. The educational package comprises the induction of (1) the overview effect (OE) using virtual reality simulations, (2) a letter to the future (LF, i.e. writing about the ideal world, as well as about concrete goals to contribute to this ideal world) and (3) an SDG poster assignment to enhance positive (strategic) change for wicked problems. We conclude with an example of how this educational package could be integrated within the curriculum. The combination of OE, LF and an SDG assignment comprises a promising intervention package in the toolkit of the educational professional.
AB - The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) of the UN aim to realize the Sustainable Development Goals through responsible management education practices. Recent reports however show that many SDGs are not being met, and there is even transgression on several key goals. In order to assure bottom-up involvement with the SDGs, there is a clear need for an evidence-based performative educational toolkit. We propose such an evidence-informed teaching package to increase student engagement with the SDGs, with concrete educational artefacts as an outcome. Specifically, the performative package, based on theories of positive psychology, is aimed at inducing intentions and actual behavioral change, using self-transcendent goals. The educational package comprises the induction of (1) the overview effect (OE) using virtual reality simulations, (2) a letter to the future (LF, i.e. writing about the ideal world, as well as about concrete goals to contribute to this ideal world) and (3) an SDG poster assignment to enhance positive (strategic) change for wicked problems. We conclude with an example of how this educational package could be integrated within the curriculum. The combination of OE, LF and an SDG assignment comprises a promising intervention package in the toolkit of the educational professional.
M3 - Working paper
BT - Engaging Students with Sustainable Development Goals
CY - Rotterdam
ER -