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sustaInaBlE FashIon : a handBooK For Educators

Further Information

tEachIng MatErIals

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/.
Ones you may find useful related to Pedagogy and
Institutional Approaches are:

resources for rethinking

‘Resources for Rethinking’ is a database of resources for
teaching sustainable development, managed by Canadian
organisation, Learning for a Sustainable Future. As well as
reviews by educators of educational activities, a summary
of some of the pedagogical approaches is provided on this
webpage http://r4r.ca/en/tool/pedapp.

puBlIcatIons

Information about additional books, reports and factsheets
is available on the Fashioning an Ethical Industry website at
http://fashioninganethicalindustry.org/resources/.

Piecing it Together:
Understanding Ethics on Placement

Industry placements can form an important part of
student learning about social, environmental and economic
sustainability issues in the garment industry. Fashioning an
Ethical Industry have produced a handbook for students to
work through before, during and after student placements
to help them understand working conditions and what
is being done to improve them. The handbook is about
working conditions in the fashion industry. It’s full of
questions for students to explore, whether their placement
is with a small company, a high street brand retailer or an
organisation working to improve working

conditions in the fashion industry. These questions will

give students the background knowledge to ask about

things they see on their placement and to interpret what

they learn. In addition to the Handbook, information

about placements that give students the opportunity to

learn about working conditions in the garments industry is

circulated on the Fashioning an Ethical Industry

website: http://fashioninganethicalindustry.org/

fashioninternships/placements/.

Fashioning an Ethical Industry (2008) Piecing it Together:

Understanding Ethics on Placement, Fashioning an

Ethical Industry

Please email [email protected] for a copy

of the Student Placement Handbook.

Sustainable Education:

revisioning Learning and Change

In this briefing, Stephen Sterling points out that progress

towards a more sustainable future depends on learning,

yet most education and learning takes no account of

sustainability. Sterling argues that, while the emergence

of environmental education, and latterly “education for

sustainable development”, are important trends, they are

not sufficient in themselves to reorient and transform

education as a whole. Sterling argues how ‘sustainable

education’ – a change of educational culture towards the

realisation of human potential and the interdependence

of social, economic and ecological well-being – can lead to

transformative learning.

Sterling, S. (2001) Sustainable Education: Revisioning Learning

and Change (Schumacher Briefing), Greenbooks.