It is evident from the literature that education for sustainable development or sustainability (EfS) has certain key attributes (Sibbel, 2009; Vincent & Focht, 2011; von der Heidt & Lamberton, 2011). Therefore, if a curriculum is being developed, it needs to have some specified attributes if we want to make it competent. These attributes should carry sustainability to its centre, should explain sustainability focusing three basic dimensions viz. environment, society and economy. They should also cater the needs at both global and local levels. They should be culturally adaptable, inclusive with evolving nature of sustainability, Should facilitate group decision-making and be interdisciplinary. Lastly, they should be inherent of various techniques …show more content…
The ideology behind this archetype is that Education for Sustainability (EfS) is an action research oriented programme wherein the participants need to be an active listener and critique. Keeping this role of participants in view, the archetype depicts the dynamics of the process. Education for Sustainability (EfS) is driven out by the preparation of a robust, appealing, easy to understand curriculum which is inclusive of latest and best practices. Alongside of this process, ‘competence’ is also taken into consideration. This curriculum then made accessible to the students or the learners. The communication takes place between the sender and recipient. Here one of the important things is to ensure that the message which has been communicated to the recipient has been perceived in a same manner which sender was intending to. The grasped message is reinforced in the outer world as the person applies his learning in the field. At the same time repeated confrontation of the same practice leads the person in developing innovative ways of applying his learning. When these innovative ways become popular, people are asked to contribute to the body of knowledge by sharing their experiences and the breakthroughs. These are done by guest lectures, town halls, simulation labs and round tables. When doing this, the ethical attributes also play their role. Although in some literatures culture is also a key …show more content…
Allen-Gil et al. (2005) despite of all other efforts for the enhancement of Education for Sustainability (EfS) encouraged the active involvement of faculty members in the spread of message of sustainability. This is because they hold a key position from the point of view of sustainability message dissemination. They can act as controlling heads for the entire communication and can ensure then the communication is taking place in right form, with required effectiveness. The greater will be the competence of faculty member the more effective will be the sustainability communication. They can also ensure about the communication of an ethically expected responsibility of individual in spreading the sustainability awareness in the external world. Further, they can identify the upcoming and critical issues with regards to Education for Sustainability (EfS), under their observation. To conclude, this is how we can ensure the sustainability awareness by triggering up the curriculum enhancement and allied mechanisms at university or institutional level which duly ensures the spread of sustainability awareness and indirectly the adoption of sustainability practices in the society. This can be observed as a long time approach of making the societies
Sustainability is one of the most controversial topics throughout the history, and as our society develop, we realize that being able to be sustainable is essential to survival of our race. The book Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Sustainability is a collection of articles on different side of various issues related to sustainability. In the book, Issue 8 discusses the ability of technology to deliver sustainability, and issue 16 and 17 discusses the sustainability of food and energy. While issue 16 and 17 are well-presented, the arguments in issue 8 are not very strong.
Sustainable development is a term used to describe the education in the American school system. Curriculums are set in stone and regulated in some cities. Select school boards believe all students must be held at the same level, therefore learning at the same pace and by the same methods. Former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg was quoted on the strict curriculum policy, explaining it as “a unified way of teaching our children.” But as always with unity, there’s something that is lost. Children learn in different ways; while some are visual, others are kinesthetic or auditory. Children who are not taught in creative ways will lack creativity themselves eventually and have the potential to become unified with their classmates in more ways than one. If a strict curriculum policy becomes widespread throughout the United States, all children will be held at the same level and will all assimil...
Sustainability is becoming a major debate in the united states and in the world as a whole. People are becoming more conscious of their surroundings and want to conserve the environment in order to keep the Earth healthy and to maintain diversity among the environment. In Christian Weisser’s “Sustainability,” he goes on to explain what sustainability truly is. Weisser does a good job in using pathos to persuade a typical college student in the validity of sustainability.
Sustainability has extended to our field; people have begun to understand the importance and necessity to introduce this practice into their life. All of this not
Sustainability is a concept with a diverse array of meanings and definitions – a widely used glamorous, ambiguous, ambivalent and vague concept that is used by different stakeholder groups in various ways. Presumably to avoid noodling over a terminology or to avoid the confrontation with a definition, most widely the concept is broken down a planning process (c.f. e.g. Döring & Muraca, 2010). That is why most common sustainability is understood as sustainable development.1
Humans have been destroying the planet since we were able to stand on two legs. As a society, we need to work to reverse these terrible effects that our existence has on the planet. Sustainability is one way to begin reversing these effects, while still living our daily lives. In 2006, Al Gore presented his documentary, “ An Inconvenient Truth”, as a way to show the world the evidence behind global warming, climate change and the destruction of our planet. This documentary shocked the world. It was clear that changes needed to be made, but the destruction was more intense than previously thought. SInce this revelation in 2006, companies have tried to cut down on their greenhouse emissions, as well as offered sustainable products to their customers. Through a debate of morals and
Finally, research has shown that basic education is paramount to a nation’s ability to develop and achieve economic development and sustainability targets. Once these targets are identified, a country will need to re-examine its education curricula at all levels, that is, pre-school to tertiary education. Also, as a government develop policies within their countries they should ensure that there is an interconnection between the environment, economy, and social structures and that they become an integral part of formal education, starting with kindergarten and continuing through primary and secondary school and then on through training at the college, university and professional levels.
“Sustainable Development: At its heart, sustainable development is the simple idea of ensuring a good quality of life for everyone, now and for generations to come. It is about living within the carrying capacity of the environment so that how we live, work and enjoy leisure activities, which do not harm or put undue pressures on the environment. It is about ensuring everyone has the opportunity to have a decent education, a quality environment that they take pride in, good health and a decent job (n.p, 2014)”
First of all, build the construction of the legal system of sustainable development. Legislation related to sustainable development is sustainable development strategy that is specific, legalization of ways, implementation of legislation related to sustainable development is an important guarantee for the sustainable development strategy into implementation. Therefore, the establishment of sustainable development is an important aspect of the legal system, capacity-building for sustainable development. Sustainable development requires through the establishment and implementation of the legal system to achieve rational use of natural resources, so that the ecological destruction and environmental pollution under control and ensure the sustainable development of economy, society and ecology. Secondly, build the construction of the education system for the sustainable development. Sustainable development requires people to have a high degree of knowledge, sensible and long-term impact of activities on the natural and social consequences, and requires people to have high ethical standards, understanding of their lofty responsibilities towards future generations, consciously for the long-term interests of human society while sacrificing some immediate and local interests. This requires capacity building for sustainable development in developing education in line with the spirit of
Sustainability development has three components: environment, society, and economy. If you consider the three to be overlapping circles of the same size, the area of overlap in the center is human well-being. As the environment, society, and economy become more aligned, the area of overlap increases, and so does human well-being. Therefore, education for sustainable development (ESD) is the use of education as a tool to achieve sustainability. Simply put, ESD is a way to make the world a safer, healthier, and more livable place for us and future generations (McKeown, 2002, pgs 7-9).
Environmental sustainability is making decisions and taking actions in the interest of protecting the natural world, preserving the capability of the environment to support human life and ensuring that humans use the environment in a way that does not harm the environment. It also questions how economic development affects our environment vice versa.
Thus, it is essential for graduates to understand and to have the capability to cope with various environmental challenges that we are facing today. For university students, most of their knowledge about sustainability is obtained from lectures. Whereas, Winter and Cotton (2012) illustrate that learning solely about sustainability is insufficient and that sustainability literacy must take into consideration students’ attitudes and dispositions in order to develop their strategies for reasoned decision-making. In addition, Winter and Cotton (2012) point out that the limitations posed by academic attitudes and disciplinary silos hinder the embedding of sustainability literacy in the formal curriculum. Therefore, if universities want to cultivate more students with sustainability literacy, then they need to focus on constructing more sustainable
There are different approaches in sustainable development. Diesendorf (2000) had illustrated that the goal or destination of sustainable development was the tight relationship between sustainabi...
Modern society is dominated by multinational corporations. In the past 30 years there has been unprecedented development of transnational corporations (TNC), which is “any corporation that is registered and operates in more than one country at a time” (Transnational). Now, there are more than 63,000 TNCs, while there only 7,000 in 1970. That is more than a 900% growth in TNCs in only a few decades. Even more startling, 70% of all trade, includes at least one of these TNCs (Basic). So, if these multinational corporations have such strong influence, it is their responsibility to activate change in terms of sustainability. Sustainability is the number one problem our society faces today. Sustainability refers to social, environmental, and economic
Environmental philosophy tries to make sense of the unexamined values, assumptions and ideologies behind humanities treatment of the environment and, in doing so, aims at helping to elicit an effective human response to related issues (Curry, 2011). Environmental philosophy, has gone beyond being merely an academic pursuit, now requiring the world’s population take moral responsibility for the damages caused by their industrial advances on natural systems.