The results show that poetry plays a relevant role in encouraging future managers to develop a frame of mind that incorporates sustainability and responsibility. Their perceptions and impressions reinforce the existing knowledge about the emotional power of poetry to encourage reflection. Students' participation was not mandatory, but the majority joined. The research took place in the second semester of 2020 and first semester of 2021, all in COVID-19 pandemic context. The research project consisted of four reflection assignments students had to comply with: reading and interpreting poetry searching for a poem which would be most appropriate for the discussed sustainability topic creating their own poem and reflecting on the whole task.
A rereading of Walter Benjamin's Illuminations from the perspective of sustainability studies was a source of inspiration, in particular “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” “The Storyteller” and “Unpacking My Library.” The paper assumes that Benjamin's ideas relate to a slow journey involving “awakening,” “wisdom” and “in a process,” three elements that are at the core of promoting a sustainability mindset. This original teaching project was followed by a research project relying on reflective assignments. Poetry was chosen as an enabler for reflection and emotions. Poetry has considerable potential as an innovative approach to teach sustainability, but it is rather unusual in business education. The potential effect of poetry on business management majors is being explored as a part of their Corporate Social Responsibility course. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that poetry can contribute to integrating the arts and humanities in management education. Art-based techniques, which have not been included alongside traditional teaching methods, have begun to gain the attention of researchers and teachers in higher education as they produce a deeper impact and involvement and can have a positive influence on the minds and hearts of the students. Therefore, higher education has a role to play in stimulating reflection in light of sustainability. Research has shown that reflection leads toward more profound levels of engagement with respect to sustainable actions. The emergence of highly complex sustainability challenges in modern society has led to the necessity of searching for more effective approaches to education for sustainable development. 2Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Faculty of Management, Open Universiteit, Heerlen, Netherlands.1Centre for Economics and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (CEDON), KU Leuven Campus Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.Ingrid Molderez 1 *, Diana Baraniuk 1 and Wim Lambrechts 2
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