Sustainability projects with a community partner: A social norm nudging effort

Singapore students from two inter-disciplinary courses worked with stakeholders of a local business association community partner on a series of sustainability topics to learn about climate change, its effects, and actions to mitigate them. They empathized with the association stakeholders, proposed...

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Main Authors: GAN, Benjamin, MENKHOFF, Thomas, OUH, Eng Lieh
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-97062024-11-20T08:24:45Z Sustainability projects with a community partner: A social norm nudging effort GAN, Benjamin MENKHOFF, Thomas OUH, Eng Lieh Singapore students from two inter-disciplinary courses worked with stakeholders of a local business association community partner on a series of sustainability topics to learn about climate change, its effects, and actions to mitigate them. They empathized with the association stakeholders, proposed a digital technology solution, tested their prototypes, and presented the final action plans. After the projects were completed, we found climate proficient (83%), motivated (83%), engaged (97%), and satisfied (70%) students; and two influencing predictors: interest/enjoyment and emotional engagement. The study results suggest that getting students interested and emotionally engaged in sustainability projects is an important first step towards the adoption of more sustainable habits. Rather than suggesting that students commit to behavioral change in support of climate action qua moral persuasion or rules, our inter-disciplinary project outcomes suggest that a more effective approach is to nudge them towards eco-friendly behavior through the sustainability needs of community partnerships via social norm. 2023-12-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8703 info:doi/10.1109/TALE56641.2023.10398303 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9706/viewcontent/Sustainability_Projects_with_a_Community_Partner_a_social_norm_nudging_effort.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Nudging multi-disciplinary community partners sustainability project Singapore motivation engagement Computer Sciences Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Higher Education
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topic Nudging
multi-disciplinary
community partners
sustainability project
Singapore
motivation
engagement
Computer Sciences
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
Higher Education
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multi-disciplinary
community partners
sustainability project
Singapore
motivation
engagement
Computer Sciences
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
Higher Education
GAN, Benjamin
MENKHOFF, Thomas
OUH, Eng Lieh
Sustainability projects with a community partner: A social norm nudging effort
description Singapore students from two inter-disciplinary courses worked with stakeholders of a local business association community partner on a series of sustainability topics to learn about climate change, its effects, and actions to mitigate them. They empathized with the association stakeholders, proposed a digital technology solution, tested their prototypes, and presented the final action plans. After the projects were completed, we found climate proficient (83%), motivated (83%), engaged (97%), and satisfied (70%) students; and two influencing predictors: interest/enjoyment and emotional engagement. The study results suggest that getting students interested and emotionally engaged in sustainability projects is an important first step towards the adoption of more sustainable habits. Rather than suggesting that students commit to behavioral change in support of climate action qua moral persuasion or rules, our inter-disciplinary project outcomes suggest that a more effective approach is to nudge them towards eco-friendly behavior through the sustainability needs of community partnerships via social norm.
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author GAN, Benjamin
MENKHOFF, Thomas
OUH, Eng Lieh
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OUH, Eng Lieh
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title Sustainability projects with a community partner: A social norm nudging effort
title_short Sustainability projects with a community partner: A social norm nudging effort
title_full Sustainability projects with a community partner: A social norm nudging effort
title_fullStr Sustainability projects with a community partner: A social norm nudging effort
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability projects with a community partner: A social norm nudging effort
title_sort sustainability projects with a community partner: a social norm nudging effort
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2023
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8703
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9706/viewcontent/Sustainability_Projects_with_a_Community_Partner_a_social_norm_nudging_effort.pdf
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