How Ethical Fashion Can Support Quality Education
Stephanie Steele
Tuesday, 1 June 2021
This overview lesson looks at the key issues and targets within the Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education, and addresses practical solutions that you as a fashion or creative business can include within your business model in order to support education.
We look at some case studies of fashion brands that have implemented strategies to provide support in terms of giving back to charities, achieve long-term stability through building training schemes.
In this lesson you will learn:
- The key issues around quality education that have led to its place in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
- How the UN SDG Goal 4: Quality Education relates to fashion businesses
- The core takeaways from a range of brand case studies implementing initiatives that directly and indirectly address this SDG
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The Role Of The Design Industry In Ensuring Accessible Education
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For this lesson we look at the organisations and institutions that are educating within the design and creative industries, and the ways in which they can help support you as an entrepreneur in educating yourself - and in turn, using this as a tool for change.
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic still has to be fully felt, with widespread disruption to schools, colleges and universities, not to mention business and the economy, still ongoing and likely to come in waves for time to come. The primary Governmental focus across the world is on vaccine rollout and recovering from debt caused by supporting people and business - so where does education fit into this?
As education is an investment, the already strained discrepancies in access have been exacerbated by the pandemic. For everyone across the world it has become apparent that we need to continue to educate ourselves to build resilience and increase knowledge across many sectors. For fashion, design and the creative industries, there is a responsibility to ensure children in schools receive interdisciplinary curriculums that will showcase collaboration, and for institutions to guide new graduates into purposeful career paths. Yet, alongside this, it is the responsibility of businesses to educate the public on ways these industries can and should be held accountable for their actions, and why there is power in knowledge.