research paper on education for sustainable development

Action competence-oriented education for sustainable development. Through ESD research and policy development, we know that teachers have an important task in organizing and conducting their teaching in such a way that students gain the knowledge, skills, and competences required to cope with sustainability issues (e.g. Rieckmann Citation 2017).This means that the goal of ESD is not a 'mere ...

In many instances, education and learning are emphasized as key drivers for sustainable development (Boström et al., 2018, p. 2), and sustainable development as a subject area and learning objective increasingly finds its way into the curriculum from pre-school to university level.Analyses of the overall policy framing of education for sustainable development suggest a consistency over time.

The Journal of Education for Sustainable Development (JESD) is a forum for academics and practitioners to share and critique innovations in thinking and practice in the emerging field of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). A peer-reviewed international journal, JESD aims at global readership and is published twice a year. View full journal description

Education, and education for sustainable development (ESD) in particular, plays a central role in building society's capacity to address some of the most pressing societal challenges faced today (Agbedahin, 2019; Holfelder, 2019).This crucial role is reflected in the commitment of the international community to the Sustainable Development Goals, one of which is to "ensure inclusive and ...

Of the final 44 papers included for review, 26 focused on education for sustainable development or environmental educational themes, 12 were global orientated in content, either through ...

Perhaps the most important issue in our time is how to sustain our planet's resources, while developing wealth and well-being for a growing population. This monumental task has been defined in the concept of sustainable development (SD). During the last few decades the world communities have agreed upon addressing SD through international treaties. As a response Education for Sustainable ...

This paper elaborates and presents key issues established for a course on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). ESD is supported by the United Nations (UN) organization and its agency, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Quality education is also one of the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The evolution of sustainable ...

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is hypothesized to enable the transition to a sustainable future as envisioned by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To demonstrate the potential of ESD to facilitate such a transition, research was carried out between 2018 and 2020, using a systems thinking approach to enable educational communities develop their own visions around the ...

This article introduces sustainable learning and education (SLE), an emerging philosophy of learning and teaching founded on principles of sustainability. SLE is not necessarily education for sustainability, but rather sustainable learning, a new and different idea. The intention behind SLE is to create and proliferate sustainable curricula and methods of learning and teaching. These are ...

This special issue of Higher Education focuses on higher education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015 cover a broad range of issues related to socio-economic, environmental and technological development, and apply to all of the world's countries, and not only those normally considered to be 'developing' or ...

1 U C L I n s t i t u t e o f E d u c a t i o n 2 0 1 7 A review of Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education in Teacher Education This paper was commissioned by the Global Education Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2017/8 GEM Report, Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments.

This research is a synthesis of studies carried out in 18 countries to identify contributions of education for sustainable development (ESD) to quality education. Five common questions were used for the interviews in each country to solicit education leaders and practitioners' views on the outcome and implementation of ESD.

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe the research preferences and differences of. education for sustainable development (E SD) researchers. A model with the continuums ...

achieving not only the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 on education, but also a range of other Goals. There is a strong evidence base showing that education contributes to improved livelihoods, more rapid economic growth, better health outcomes, reductions in gender inequities, strengthened support for democracy, higher

Education for sustainable development. Education for sustainable development (ESD) is UNESCO's education sector response to the urgent and dramatic challenges the planet faces. The collective activities of human beings have altered the earth's ecosystems so that our very survival seems in danger because of changes more difficult to reverse ...

This study contributes to advancing Agenda 2030 outcomes by generating insights for more effective implementation of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in higher education institutions (HEIs). With Education for Sustainable Development becoming critical to the agenda recently, the current study attempts to consolidate the existing research on SDG implementation in HEIs by using the ...

Higher Education and Sustainable Development : An education plays an important and. decisive role in socio-economic, cultural a nd political development of a nation and impacts. every domain of ...

This paper outlines some of the main characteristics of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), particularly in the context of 'development' and 'globalization'. It addresses the various interpretations and meanings of ESD, shows how these relate environmental education and emerging educations that overlap with SD-issues and ...

Very recently (UNESCO, 2018) 'Education for Sustainable Development'. (ESD) is placed at th e centre of the 2030 'Susta inable Developm ent Agenda' and has been widely acknowledged. as a ...

Abstract. The question of how sustainability can be incorporated into all areas of society encourages museums to rethink their approaches to society and education. In this article, we argue that museums have the potential to become key public pedagogies for sustainable development and thereby play a crucial role in encouraging participation in ...