BC Textbooks Fail Sustainability Education: Walkingthetalk Scholarship Recipient Tom Green’s Study

Through the support of the BC Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, WalkingtheTalk provided $30,000 in scholarships to full-time graduate students in BC. Three scholarships were awarded to students from the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and Royal Roads University to support their work on projects highly relevant to sustainability education.
Tom Green, one of the WalkingtheTalk scholarship participants, recently completed his study entitled: BC’s Introductory Economics Textbooks: What do they teach about sustainability?
Overview:
Universities in British Columbia have committed to sustainability and to ensuring that their students are environmentally literate. But has their curriculum been updated to reflect these commitments? Tom Green examined how introductory economics textbooks address sustainability. What he found suggests that there is much work to be done...