Education for Sustainable Development

Sustainable development idea is to find ways to improve our lives without harming the planet's ability to support life in the long term. Why this is so important today: Our planet's resources are not limitless. Climate change, deforestation and pollution are all signs that we're using them up too quickly. Sustainable development helps us find ways to use resources more wisely. The world's population is growing. This implies that a greater number of individuals will require access to food, water and energy. Sustainable development helps us meet these needs in a way that's fair and doesn't leave anyone behind. We all depend on a healthy planet. Clean air, water and a stable climate are essential for our well-being. Sustainable development helps us protect these things for ourselves and future generations. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is all about empowering people of all ages to understand and address the challenges we face as a planet. It's not just learning facts about sustainability, but developing the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes needed to take action.

SODHASAMHITA, 2022

Humanity has the power to make progress sustainable, ensuring that it satisfies current demands without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. Education for sustainable development (ESD) helps people get the knowledge, skills, understanding, attitudes, and behaviours they need to construct a society that protects and conserves the environment promotes social justice and supports economic stability. Climate change, catastrophe risk reduction, poverty reduction, biodiversity, and sustainable consumerism are just a few of the leading sustainable development topics that must be addressed in education for sustainable development. It also needs participatory teaching techniques that engage and empower students to change their practices and take appropriate action in long-term sustainability, such as energy conservation, water conservation, tree planting, and natural energy utilization. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a sub-field of education and a conceptual tool to assist policymakers in developing educational policies that address current environmental, sociological, and economic concerns. SDG 4 stresses inclusive and high-quality education and opportunities for lifelong learning. Education for Sustainable Development is a lifetime process critical to obtaining a high-quality education. It enhances cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioural learning. It includes learning content and outcomes, pedagogy, and the learning environment and is comprehensive and transformational.

Each generation has to carry out tasks and must not leave the account generations to come-this is the basic concept of sustainable development. And this includes explicitly the global perspective.[1]

International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research, 2023

ESD has emerged as a crucial instrument for addressing the sustainability crisis and transforming societies toward a more sustainable future. This article examines the current trends in ESD, concentrating on its role in challenging existing power structures, promoting democratic participation, and empowering students to analyze and transform society critically. It emphasizes the need for a transformational approach that combines critical analysis with a systems or relational approach, recognizing the social and environmental boundaries of society. As part of the SDGs, the article also discusses the advancement made in global educational rates and the emphasis on reducing inequalities in education. In addition, it addresses the pressing need for transformative learning and education to create solutions and empower individuals during the transition to more sustainable and equitable societies. The evaluation emphasizes education as a catalyst for SD and calls for a system of teaching that prepares students to adjust lifestyle and socioeconomic models. The article discusses current trends in and the necessity of incorporating sustainability into education in order to address current issues.

International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2021

Education has a key role in attaining sustainable development goals for both of developing and developed countries. Considering “the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development” approved by United Nations, the gap between the real and the intended contribution of education to sustainable development must be assessed. The main aim of the current study is to evaluate the contribution of education to sustainable development and explore efficient mechanisms to maximize that contribution regarding the main pillars of sustainable development. This paper goes beyond a study concentrating exclusively on the role of education in achieving sustainable development goals as it also examines the relation between education and each dimension of sustainable development to conclude related policy recommendations which are exposed to be useful in that regard.

Dr. Karan Singh

In recent years, the interest in research concerning Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has grown considerably. Therefore, a thorough (re)evaluation of this field and its challenges is highly necessary and can help us better understand the diversity of ESD approaches and the ways in which various scholars, countries, institutions, or universities reacted through research and scientific publications to the study of ESD. The development of the field, critical past contributions, emerging trends, and potentially transformative ideas, from different parts and cultures of the world, indicating that publishing on ESD is like a legacy to international efforts to bring this area of inquiry into the mainstream. Finally, the study illustrates two main research directions for the entire time-span: integration of education into sustainable development and of sustainable development into education.

UNESCO, 2018

Chapter 1, From Agenda 21 to Target 4.7: the development of ESD, by Alexander Leicht, Bernard Combes, Won Jung Byun and Adesuwa Vanessa Agbedahin, provides an account of this emergence and the development of the concept of ESD. The chapter highlights the two flows of change: the development of ESD examining both the integration of sustainable development into education systems and how education has been embedded in the discourse of sustainable development. It addresses certain international processes that supported the emergence of ESD and shows how these two flows of change laid strong grounds for ESD over the years. Among other things, the chapter addresses the increasing centrality of ESD to the global education discourse, as reflected in the Education 2030 Agenda, and the relevance of education and particularly ESD in relation to the achievement of all the SDGs.

This paper focuses on the scope, methods of dissemination and the target of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). It argues that ESD should not be mere information sharing, but should be aimed at educating those who can fabricate a sustainable future. Since environmental crises are being increasingly felt in every field and sector, it is necessary to concentrate on imparting ESD to those who can bring about environmental improvements immediately. The role of ESD in the short and the long run is examined with a view to identifying and targeting the group that can best bring about Sustainable Development (SD). The paper points out that while Environmental Education (EE) can be envisaged as formal and informal education, the latter is more relevant to ESD. It also discusses the various difficulties that may be encountered in the course of reaching out to the target audience.

JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT Multi-disciplinary, Peer Reviewed Journal, 2018

Abstract: The world is going through a great turmoil. Human existence is threatened by our own species. Environment, Society, Nature everything has become a part of this exploitation. So, the necessity of Environmental Education is essential to maintain our sustainability in life. Environmental Education is a process to aware people about their environment and it explores environmental issues for a better understanding. On the other hand, Sustainable development is a process which meets the needs of present to develop a better and able future generations. The essence of this form of development is a stable relationship between human activities and the natural world, which does not diminish the prospects for future generations to enjoy a quality life. But, at present environmental issues has become an obstacle for sustainable development. Our natural resources are limited. But, for a developed country like India we need more resources for further betterment. So, what to do? On the contrary, There are four objectives of sustainable development: These are: (i) social progress and equality, (ii) environmental protection, (iii) conservation of natural resources and (iv) stable economic growth. So, all that we need is the balance between environment and human need. Environmental education is thus become a way to aware and maintain this equilibrium between human and nature. Keywords: environmental education, sustainable development, Dimensions of ESD

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2014

Global environment and ecology are rapidly becoming the demanding subjects of discussions necessitating decision and action in the required direction as the environmental problems have emerged due to exploitation of natural resources for want of basic needs and so called the developmental measures. The developed and the developing countries share the environmental concerns alike which have their roots in societal, economical and ecological bases. Therefore, Sustainable Development is grounded on four independent systems such as bio-physical, economic, social and political. It supports interrelated principles such as peace, equity, democracy, appropriate development and conservation for sustainable living. Education has been acknowledged worldwide as a fundamental tool and one of the major means of sustaining the resources and its judicious utility, so that the earth resources could be protected for future generations. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an emerging concept that seeks to empower people of all ages in the world to assume responsibility for creating a sustainable future. The role of education is the major determinant in increasing creativity, rationality, problem-solving abilities, critical and analytical mindedness needed to foster the increasingly complex cultural, social and technological decisions involved in sustainable development. This paper examines some of the above critical concerns and issues related to sustainable development. It highlights the need for an interdisciplinary and a holistic approach to ESD in school education which is value driven, future and action oriented in nature. It attempts to discuss an across-the-curriculum approach to education for a sustainable future and the pedagogic concerns required to examine the local as well as global issues related to sustainable development.