Education for Sustainable Development: What Was Achieved in the Desd?

ISBN-13: 9780367220044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 152 str.

Roger Firth; Maggie Smith

Opis

To integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning was the goal of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). This book reflects on the role and impact of the Decade in helping to reorient education towards sustainability, and looks forward, contemplating the way ahead, and giving special attention to case studies and the state of affairs in England. The authors offer different perspectives on the effectiveness and value of particular initiatives and practices that are responses to the Decade. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Curriculum Journal.

Spis treści

Introduction – As the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development comes to an end: what has it achieved and what are the ways forward?  1. Developing the sustainable school: thinking the issues through  2. Eco-schooling and sustainability citizenship: exploring issues raised by corporate sponsorship  3. Exploring and developing student understandings of sustainable development  4. Sustainable development, environmental education, and the significance of being in place  5. Uncharted waters: voyages for Education for Sustainable Development in the higher education curriculum  6. A Practitioner’s Perspective – Missing the wood for the trees: systemic defects and the future of education for sustainable development

O autorze

Roger Firth is an Associate Professor of Geography Education in the Department of Education, and a Fellow of St Anne’s College, at the University of Oxford, UK. He has written widely on geography in education, knowledge and its impacts on curriculum, and pedagogy and environmental education. His recent research interest is inferentialist perspectives on conceptual development in geography classrooms.

Maggie Smith is a lecturer on the PGCE course at Reading University, UK. Her research interests and publications focus on the practice of environmental and sustainable development education in schools. She is a past chair of the National Association of Environmental Education, and of the Geographical Association’s special interest group on environmental education. She has worked widely with organisations linked to environmental education.