Abstract
Fashion departments of higher education institutions currently play a decisive role in promoting sustainable development as centers of cultivating fashion design talents towards the rapid increase of environmental issues that caused by the fashion and textile industry. Through both quantitative and qualitative approaches, we aim to determine the perceptions of fashion design students regarding sustainability practices throughout the lifecycle of clothing products within the context of Chinese fashion design higher education in sustainability. An online survey is conducted to ascertain Chinese fashion design students' perceptions (due to their varied sustainable educational backgrounds), self-learning channels on sustainable practices throughout the lifecycle of clothing products, and open-ended questions related to sustainability knowledge application for 60 student participants from three Chinese universities with different statuses of sustainable education respectively (University A has constructed a sustainability related curriculum and has designed relevant design projects; University B has not constructed sustainability related curriculums, but has designed a relevant design project; University C has not constructed sustainability related curriculums and has not designed relevant design projects). Data analysis is conducted by using non-parametric test and Chi-square test. The findings show that, as compared to students from universities B and C, university A students showed significantly higher perception levels, used more self-learning channels with books and journals, and were able to apply relevant knowledge to fashion design more effectively. Therefore, the findings from this study will provide insights into educators’ perceptions of integrating sustainability into higher education of fashion design in China.
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Wenjun Guo, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Eunyoung Kim, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Takaya Yuizono, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
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Conference: IICE2023
Stream: Education
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To cite this article:
Guo W., Kim E., & Yuizono T. (2023) A Study on Chinese Fashion Design Students’ Perceptions on Sustainable Practices Throughout the Lifecycle of Clothing Products ISSN: 2189-1036 – The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii 2023 Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-1036.2023.13
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-1036.2023.13
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