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Geetika Jaiswal; Elizabeth Newcomb Hopfer; Devona L. Dixon – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to promote sustainability-based education in fashion design and merchandising program to enhance students' knowledge, skills and attitude about sustainability development, organizational responsibility and personal responsibility from the cotton industry perspective. Design/methodology/approach: To conduct this study,…
Descriptors: Clothing, Textiles Instruction, Sustainability, Clothing Instruction
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Ragul Senthil; V. Ann Paulins – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2024
A sustainability module was developed for a college-level textiles course that included active and participatory learning strategies about home textiles products. Through pedagogical activities it was confirmed that students began the module with a basic understanding of sustainability, a general desire to reduce carbon footprints, and desires for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Family and Consumer Sciences, Textiles Instruction, Sustainable Development
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Zaman, Barbara; Lovšin Kozina, Francka – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
Today's world is facing a problem with the growth of textile products and in particular, textile waste, which already represents a serious environmental problem. From the point of view of ensuring sustainable handling of textile products, it is thus very important that individuals have the appropriate knowledge, attitudes and skills for…
Descriptors: Textiles Instruction, Multiple Literacies, Grade 9, Secondary School Students
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Zannat, Meheraz; Jalil, M. Abdul; Iqbal, Tareq; Alam, Md. Rubel – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
Bangladesh has been experiencing serious environmental degradation for last few years specially for textile and apparel industries. The objective of this research is to evaluate the level of environmental education of outgoing textile undergraduate students and their perception about the environmental degradation. A questionnaire was developed and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment), Sustainable Development, Responsibility
Loo, Sai – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
"Teachers and Teaching in Vocational and Professional Education" introduces a critical understanding of how teachers deliver occupational or vocational courses at various academic levels. Including wider coverage of work-related programmes and based on empirical research, this book uses the term occupation-related to refer to programmes…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Vocational Education, Professional Education, Teaching Methods
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Sayer, Kate; Wilson, Jacquie; Challis, Simon – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2006
Staff observing undergraduate students enrolled on the BSc Hons Textile Design and Design Management programme in The School of Materials, The University of Manchester, identified difficulties with knowledge retention in the area of constructed textile design. Consequently an experimental pilot was carried out in seamless knitwear design using a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Problem Based Learning, College Students, Teaching Methods