ABSTRACT
This chapter purports to present a theoretical essay for reflection of the relationship between values and education for sustainability in the training of administrators. The chapter is divided into three strands. First, it will present a survey, followed by reflection on the use of the term values for, or sustainability, and its sub-areas, analyzing the various contexts in which they appear and their meanings. Concerns with the values of the business scope has been a concern since the work of Davis (1960), Dawson (1969), and Elbing (1970). From social psychology, under the Theory of Basic Values (Schwartz & Bilsky, 1990), evaluates motivational types in attitudes to sustainability, in purchasing decisions in resource use in agricultural management, and other areas of sustainability. Similarly, the European Social Survey provided for theoretical studies of cultural values to assess environmental performance indices of countries. The Millennium Declaration (UN 2000) defines fundamental values to achieve sustainable development: freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, and respect for nature and shared responsibility. From the mapping and analysis of theoretical currents, the second axis offers a debate about the possibilities and limitations of the scope of this set of beliefs toward a sustainability-oriented mentality. Finally, the third axis discusses the implications of this discussion for management education, considering the assumptions of transformative learning (Mezirow, 1994; Cranton & Taylor, 2012). Building on these theoretical foundations of the meanings of values and their relationship to sustainability and a pedagogical point of view, the authors introduce elements that can contribute to the debate of values oriented to sustainability mindset in management education.
