Narrating sustainability through storytelling / edited by Daniel Fischer, Sonja Fücker, Hanna Selm, and Anna Sundermann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Daniel, 1978- editor.

Fücker, Sonja, editor.

Selm, Hanna, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge-SCORAI studies in sustainable consumption

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling in education.

Environmental education.

Sustainability--Study and teaching.

Sustainability.

Narrative inquiry (Research method).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 142 pages) : color illustrations.

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Daniel Fischer is an associate professor of Consumer Communication and Sustainability at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and visiting professor of Sustainability Communication at theLeuphana University L|neburg, where he led the SusTelling project. From 2018 to 2020, he was an assistant professor at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, USA. Together with his research group SuCo2, short for Sustainable Consumption and Sustainability Communication (www.suco2.com), he researches how sustainable lifestyles can be promoted through communication and learning. Sonja F|cker is a research associate at the Research Institute of Social Cohesion (RISC) at the University of Hannover. Previously, she worked at the Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication (INFU) at the Leuphana University ofL|neburg. As a sociologist, her research focuses on the reception and impact of science communication. She is interested in how people acquire scientific knowledge in their everyday lives and what influence narrative and participatory transfer methods have on this. Hanna Selm worked as a research associate at the Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication (INFU) at theLeuphana University ofL|neburg (Germany) and has been a member of the SuCo2 research group. As a cultural scientist, she has contributed to various (research) projects in the field of sustainability communication. She is particularly interested in researching and testing new formats of sustainability communication. Anna Sundermann is pursuing a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Sustainability at theLeuphana University of L|neburg and working as a curriculum developer at Leuphana Graduate School. From 2013 to 2020, she conducted research on various projects at the Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication (INFU) at Leuphana Universityof L|neburg (Germany). In her Ph.D. thesis, she brings her degree in psychology to bear on sustainability-related learning processes of students in higher education to find out whether the current integration of sustainability in higher education enables and motivates students to participate in societal change.

Contents:

Of Sustainability and Storytelling

An Introduction to this Book

PART 1. RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES. SusTelling: Storytelling for Sustainability

Does SusTelling for Sustainability Work? An Experiment

SusTelling in the Reception Lab

On How Young Adults Perceive Storytelling

PART 2. PRACTICE PERSPECTIVES. Telling Your Own Stories: Teaching and Learning Storytelling

SusTelling in Higher Education

SusTelling and Constructive Journalism: A Perfect Pair?

Learning from Humboldt

Storytelling as a Method of Science Communication

Storytelling in Corporate Communications

When, Why, and How Storytelling Works in Personnel Training

EPILOGUE. Storytelling for Sustainability: A Preliminary Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Narrating sustainability through storytelling

ISBN:

9781003326144

1003326145

9781000800814

1000800814

9781000800876

1000800873

Publisher Number:

40031541090

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