Fashion departments of higher education institutions as centers of cultivating fashion design talents, currently play a decisive role in promoting sustainable development toward the rapid increase of environmental issues that are caused by fashion and textile industry. This study aims to investigate the fashion design students’ perceptions on sustainable practices throughout the lifecycle of clothing products in the context of current status of Chinese fashion design higher education in sustainability. An online survey will be conducted to ascertain Chinese fashion design students’ perception extent, perception distinction (owning to different sustainable educational backgrounds), and self-learning channels on sustainable practices throughout the lifecycle of clothing products for 3 groups of participants from three Chinese universities with different status of sustainable education (University A has constructed a sustainability related curriculum and has designed relevant design projects; University B has not constructed sustainability related curriculum, however, has designed a relevant design project; University C has not constructed sustainability related curriculum and has not designed relevant design projects). Data analysis will be conducted using factor analysis and descriptive statistics. Finally, the results of Chinese fashion design students’ perception extent, perception distinction, and self-learning channels on sustainable practices throughout the lifecycle of clothing products will provide significant insights into educators’ perceptions of integrating sustainability into higher education of fashion design in China.

Authors:
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

About the Presenter(s)
Ms Wenjun Guo is a University Doctoral Student at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Japan

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