Sustentabilidade nos cursos de administração: um olhar para as experiências docentes à luz dos conceitos de reflexão crítica e aprendizagem transformadora

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Brunnquell, Claudine
• Orientador(a): Brunstein, Janette
• Banca de defesa: Godoy, Arilda Schmidt , Dias, Sylmara Lopes Francelino Gonçalves , Sambiase, Marta Fabiano , Coelho Júnior, Pedro Jaime de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Administração de Empresas
• Departamento: Administração
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: educação para a sustentabilidade; administração; reflexão crítica; aprendizagem transformadora; experiências docentes
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: education for sustainability; administration; critical reflection; transformative learning; teaching experiences
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::ADMINISTRACAO DE EMPRESAS
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/23450

The discussion of sustainability has been gradually incorporated into the teaching agenda of business schools from around the country, which requires changes to the content traditionally taught in business schools agenda. In this way, the teaching of sustainability, facing a critical and transformative learning, are intended to guide students in reflection and action as people engaged in sustainability discourse, seeking to empower them to act as changing-agents within organizations and society . This dissertation sought to make a contribution by proposing a study that sought to describe and analyze the proposals to incorporate sustainability in different disciplines of Administration courses at Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Brazil, according to the concepts of critical reflection and transformative learning. The intention was to observe in the experiments reported, the extent to which teaching strategies used in the classroom represented assumptions of critical and transformative way. To this end, we conducted a basic interpretive qualitative study from the documentary analysis of 32 cases qualified for the second stage of an entrepreneurial contest that awarded education initiatives for sustainability in business and economics. Interviews with 10 teachers participating in the contest were conduct from different higher education institutions in the country. The theoretical framework was supported by discussions of Education for Sustainability, bringing the assumptions of critical reflection, discussed mainly by Springett (2005) and Tilbury and Wortman (2004), and transformative learning, based on Mezirow (2003) and Taylor (2010). To analyze the relevant actors to the teaching of sustainability, this study relied on Cortese (2003), Wright (2002, 2004) and Grennspoon (2008) researchs, as well as Kearins and Springett (2003), Gonçalves-Dias, Belloque and Herrera (2011), Melo (2012), Welsh and Murray (2003) and Stubbs and Cocklin (2008) to discuss the experiences in the classroom. With regard to interdisciplinaries approaches, this study was based on Fazenda (2011), Barbieri and Silva (2011) and Demajorovic and Silva (2012). As a result, the experiments revealed both positive and innovative initiatives of teachers, but also clear limitations. On the one hand, the contest instigated meaningful experiences and promoted the debate of sustainability into the classroom. As limitations, most of education proposals presented an instrumental character, with objectives that are not allowed to establish a discussion that evoke some aspect of critical reflection and transformative learning. Even so, many proposals were not only limited by pragmatic aspects of sustainability debate, since these goals were intended to promote a reflection of a role about business organizations in a society that should be sustainable, as well as values, culture, ethics, corporate social responsibility, with the clear purpose of involving students in discussion and their responsabilities as a transforming agent of unsustainable reality that we live. The experience clarified sometimes the lack of support from colleagues and the HEI itself in the conduct of the proposal. Furthermore, the inclusion of the theme was not institutionalized nor remained in the curricula after the contest in all cases. Finally, the study showed a picture of a set of educational actions for sustainability in different disciplines of Administration, which may serve for future studies aiming to discuss the issue in the light of the ideals of critical reflection and transformative.