21609: Teaching and Learning Sustainability Through Bodies and Shared Vulnerabilities

While sustainability education is flourishing in management and organisation sciences it is often suspected as greenwashing and students and teachers express eco-anxiety and eco-fatigue. Bringing alternative content is necessary but not sufficient, calling to imagine learning spaces and relationships based on the lived, corporeal and affective experience. This symposium explores the role of bodies, affects and vulnerabilities in sustainability teaching and learning experiences in management and organisation sciences. We engage participants around two different embodied pedagogies for teaching sustainability: the Deep time walk and theatre of the oppressed. The expected outcomes for participants to this session are: 1. to discover and/or share active pedagogies for sustainability based on embodiment and reflect on how they could apply them to their own practice 2. to reflect on the potential of such pedagogies and the associated risks; 3. to reflect on implications of embodied methods for teachers, the relationship with learners and between learners and the risks and limits.

This session is part of the Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC@AOM). Space is limited; separate complimentary TLC@AOM pre-registration on a first-come, first-served basis is required. The TLC@AOM registration deadline is 27 July 2025, unless sold out. Register for TLC@AOM.