Ecoliteracy and ecopedagogy for environmental sustainability in education In support of ecocentric, arts-based business education

The planet faces a global ecological crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and species extinction. Conventional management approaches are failing to address this crisis. There is an urgent need to adopt an ecology-centred (ecocentric) ethic to support business education. We interweave positive and critical perspectives to question the pervasive neoliberal logic dominating business education and practice. We argue that the education for sustainable development goals embraced by management education, offered as the framework for addressing environmental concerns, fails to recognise the limits to industrial growth and remains anthropocentric and bound by economic logic. Instead, we propose arts-based ecopedagogy as a radical challenge to business education enabling reorientation towards the praxis necessary to support transformation in learner consciousness and thus influence a future management practice. We provide practice examples that draw upon arts-based education, ecopedagogy and ecoliteracy focusing on biodiversity. We propose future directions that integrate ecological and human well-being within management curricula.