Teaching for sustainability: The role of (benefit) corporations
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Geographical Education, 2017, 30, pp. 24-30
- Issue Date:
- 2017
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This article explores the role that corporations
can play in the creation or failure of a sustainable
society. A review of the concept of sustainability
in the Australian Curriculum: Geography is
made and then linked to a comparison of the
legal framework guiding business activities
of traditional corporations and those of B
Corporations, which are guided by their own
separate legislation. Business activities of a
particular B Corporation in Australia, and other
profit-oriented businesses in the same sector of
the economy, are then compared in terms of four
earth functions listed in the Australian Curriculum
to determine if one is more sustainable than
the other. This comparison concludes that
the B Corporation is more sustainable than a
traditional profit-oriented corporation in several
respects, though it is not sustainable absolutely.
The example explored is linked to curriculum
outcomes and suggestions are made as to how
teachers might apply this content and analysis
when teaching for sustainability in their own
classes.
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