TY - JOUR
T1 - Educating for Sustainable Fashion
T2 - Using Clothing Acquisition Abstinence to Explore Sustainable Consumption and Life Beyond Growth
AU - Joyner Armstrong, Cosette M.
AU - Connell, Kim Y.Hiller
AU - Lang, Chunmin
AU - Ruppert-Stroescu, Mary
AU - LeHew, Melody L.A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - This paper reports outcomes from a research study whereby fashion-oriented students experienced life where the ability to acquire new clothing was removed. Students volunteered to participate in this experiential learning challenge, titled the Fashion Detox: to abstain from clothing acquisition for 10 weeks and reflect about the experience. This learning experience was characterized by barriers to sustainable consumption, chief among them a range of temptations prompted by inescapable merchandising and marketing strategies, compulsive tendencies, and envy of those who could consume with impunity. Students also indicated many benefits to abstaining from acquisition, such as creativity and self-regulation. This teaching and learning experiment has important implications for the challenges faced by educators who must engage fashion-oriented students in sustainability topics and how these may be navigated.
AB - This paper reports outcomes from a research study whereby fashion-oriented students experienced life where the ability to acquire new clothing was removed. Students volunteered to participate in this experiential learning challenge, titled the Fashion Detox: to abstain from clothing acquisition for 10 weeks and reflect about the experience. This learning experience was characterized by barriers to sustainable consumption, chief among them a range of temptations prompted by inescapable merchandising and marketing strategies, compulsive tendencies, and envy of those who could consume with impunity. Students also indicated many benefits to abstaining from acquisition, such as creativity and self-regulation. This teaching and learning experiment has important implications for the challenges faced by educators who must engage fashion-oriented students in sustainability topics and how these may be navigated.
KW - Acquisition abstinence
KW - Clothing consumption
KW - Degrowth
KW - Strong sustainable consumption
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84979256634
U2 - 10.1007/s10603-016-9330-z
DO - 10.1007/s10603-016-9330-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84979256634
SN - 0168-7034
VL - 39
SP - 417
EP - 439
JO - Journal of Consumer Policy
JF - Journal of Consumer Policy
IS - 4
ER -