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sustaInaBlE FashIon : a handBooK For Educators
Interactive teaching Materials available in this
handbook
Within other chapters in this Handbook, you will find the
following interactive activities:
[FE, UG] Business Chapter: Buying Power role Play:
How decision-making in the fashion industry impacts on
working conditions - In small groups, students take on the
roles of CEO, designer, buyer, factory owner and factory
worker, and consider how the priorities and challenges
facing each of these roles impacts on workers.
[UG, PG] Business Chapter: Case studies to address
impacts of purchasing practices on working conditions
by Ethical Trading Initiative, UK, are the result of a meeting
involving UK brands and retailers that explored how
business decisions affect labour standards. Questions
to enable students to fully explore the case studies are
included.
[UG] Business Chapter: In What Price a Fairly Traded
T-shirt? by Doug Miller of University of Northumbria,
UK, students consider how garments are costed at the
factory level and how a living wage might be achieved
in global apparel supply chains. The activity is based on
actual industry figures on wages as at October 2006 and
production line balancing figures provided by corporate
social responsibility/sourcing managers from a major
multinational retailer.
[Pre-16, FE] Design Chapter: In the short activity,
Introducing the cotton supply chain and sustainability,
by Südwind Agentur, Austria, students learn how cotton is
cultivated and explore the social and environmental issues
associated with cultivating cotton. With a set of images and
matching descriptions about cotton cultivation, students
clarify the meaning and content of these and put them
in order. This activity can also be used as an English as a
foreign language lesson and German-English translations
are provided.Interactive teaching Materials available online
There is information about a range of teaching resources,
films, exhibitions and images on the Fashioning an Ethical
Industry website at http://fashioninganethicalindustry.org/
resources/. These include:[Pre-16, FE] Labour Behind the Labels
This resource can be used to explore working conditions
in the garment industry, and can be adapted to different
ages/subjects/background knowledge. A number of
activities can be adapted for use by different ages
and focus:- How, how, how: A simple but effective activity to get
students exploring why, when we in the UK are capable
of producing clothing for ourselves, is almost all of our
clothing manufacturing relocated overseas? - What are the companies doing? Discussion questions
are suggested after students have visited brands’ and
campaigning groups’ websites to explore issues of
responsibility of brands, retailers, consumers in more
detail, and what is being done to change the situation.