Creating Global Leaders with Sustainability Mindsets - Insights from the RMSSN Summer Academy

Abstract

Ensuring a more sustainable world requires leaders who are global citizens with sustainability mindsets. This is especially true in tourism as a global phenomenon with tremendous impacts on local communities and global society. This article presents the structure and preliminary outcomes of a pedagogical experiment aimed at creating global leaders with sustainability mindsets and aligns closely with approaches outlined for global citizenship education and sustainable tourism pedagogy. It describes the various components of the program and outlines the elaborate assessment framework developed and concludes with a discussion on how the model could be replicated in the tourism context. Copyright © Taylor & Francis.

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Assessment global citizenship critical tourism pedagogy global leadership sustainability mindset

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Author Affiliations

The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, United States

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States

Funding & Acknowledgements

National Science Foundation, NSF

Grant: DBI-09560596

The Rocky Mountain Sustainability and Science Network (RMSSN) was established in 2010 by representatives from universities, governmental agencies, and nongovernmental organizations with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation under the Research Coordination Network in Undergraduate Biology Education scheme (NSF grant DBI-09560596 to Bowser and Brown). The RMSSN identified its vision as being a replicable model that demonstrates effective multi-institutional collaboration in education and research, and develops a diverse mix of future leaders who are prepared to address sustainability, uncertainty, and change on a global scale. RMSSN’s specific goals are:

National Science Foundation, NSF

The Rocky Mountain Sustainability and Science Network (RMSSN) was established in 2010 by representatives from universities, governmental agencies, and nongovernmental organizations with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation under the Research Coordination Network in Undergraduate Biology Education scheme (NSF grant DBI-09560596 to Bowser and Brown). The RMSSN identified its vision as being a replicable model that demonstrates effective multi-institutional collaboration in education and research, and develops a diverse mix of future leaders who are prepared to address sustainability, uncertainty, and change on a global scale. RMSSN’s specific goals are:

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Creating Global Leaders with Sustainability Mindsets - Insights from the RMSSN Summer Academy

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