Education for Sustainable Development: Connecting the Dots for Sustainability

Autor/inn/en	Gokool-Ramdoo, Sushita; Rumjaun, Anwar Bhai
Titel	Education for Sustainable Development: Connecting the Dots for Sustainability
Quelle	In: Journal of Learning for Development, 4 (2017) 1, S.72-89 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2311-1550
Schlagwörter	Sustainable Development; Environmental Education; Guidelines; Critical Theory; Teaching Methods; Systems Approach; Outcomes of Education; Curriculum; Socioeconomic Influences; Educational Principles; Informal Education; Educational Quality; Quality Assurance; Transformative Learning; Barriers; Competence; Decision Making; Critical Thinking; Social Change; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Richtlinien; Kritische Theorie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Systemischer Ansatz; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Bildungsprinzip; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Qualitätssicherung; Pädagogische Transformation; Kompetenz; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Kritisches Denken; Sozialer Wandel; Ausland
Abstract	Critical pedagogy, practitioner experience and a regulatory perspective are employed to scrutinize the notion of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as it occurs in the literature. They promote understanding of the challenges impeding the completion of unfinished ESD businesses. In response to practitioner-expressed needs, this paper innovatively proposes a Sustainable Development-compliant National Qualifications and Credit Framework (SD-NQCF) as the instrument to finally connect isolated ESD "dots" and scaffold their sustainability. Informed by a systems approach, this framework encourages repositioning educational activities within the UN Agenda 21 to ensure the suffusion of SD principles. ESD becomes the backbone of NQCFs, while critical pedagogy provides the adequate instrument to foster 21st Century sustainability competencies that are embedded into curricula as learning outcomes. The SD-compliant framework resolves tensions between formal, non-formal and informal education. It provides connecting bridges and pathways to sustainably suffusing socio-economic fabrics with SD principles that will shift paradigms. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01