The 39th OBTC Teaching Conference for Management Educators June 20-23, 2012-Brock University

摘要

Sustainabiuty: Sustaining Ourselves, Students, Community, and Global World When we speak of sustainability, we often think of "green" or the environment these days, but truthfully, sustainability is all around us and impacts us daily at multiple levels, so much so that we often are not mindful of it when we act. If innovation fuels our fire, then sustainability ensures that fire continues to burn. How often do we engage in a new venture only to find that it is short-lived and its full potential is not achievable? In times of economic downturns and turbulence, we need to ask ourselves at what cost do we try to maintain our way of life? We as educators need to continuously ask ourselves how is it possible to sustain our passion for learning and teaching when a new idea can get old pretty quickly? How can we sustain our enthusiasm for teaching when we are bombarded with potential constraints or obstacles?