Education for Sustainable Development: A Framework for Global Partnership and Sustainability in India

Education for sustainable development (ESD) enjoys a huge momentum worldwide in which the role of teachers for making sustainable development goals a reality has been recognized significantly. Teachers through their knowledge, attitudes and skills can bring the learning about these concepts to the curriculum and class room interaction and are in a position to influence their students. Therefore it is pertinent, that teachers are sensitised towards these issues, so that they prepare and nurture their students for making appropriate and responsible choices which contribute to a sustainable future. At this juncture it becomes crucial to understand their priorities and awareness level in context of the sustainable development. The present research paper aims to analyse the perception of forty post graduate pre-service teachers of the Chandigarh region, towards ESD through the dimensions of economic sustainability, environmental sustainability, social sustainability and cultural sustainability. For this researchers have adopted qualitative content analysis methodology for an in-depth study of the subjective responses through an open ended question. The findings suggest that most of the respondents associated the perception of ESD strongly with environmental sustainability. It is noted that the pre-service teachers lack a holistic approach towards ESD. On the basis of the findings it is recommended that there is an urgent need of integrating the concept of ESD consciously and conscientiously in India’s teacher education programmes.

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EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal ◽

10.30638/eemj.2005.037 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 405-419

Author(s):

Carmen Catalina Ioan ◽

Bogdan Horbaniuc ◽

Gheorghe Dumitrascu

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Education For Sustainable Development

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Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

10.31219/osf.io/kvaqt ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Adib Rifqi Setiawan

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Education For Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Future ◽

The Way

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) empowers people to change the way they think and work towards a sustainable future.

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Higher education for sustainable development: stakeholders benefits

10.33983/2075-1826-2020-1-121-136 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 121-136 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

O.V. Kotomina ◽

A.I. Sazhina

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Active Agent ◽

Education For Sustainable Development ◽

Special Role ◽

Stakeholder Approach ◽

Research Activities ◽

Academic Activities ◽

Key Stakeholders ◽

The One ◽

Significant Factors

Education is one of the key goals of sustainable development (SD), which establishes the basis for the improvement of the people’s living conditions. In this logic a special role is played by universities that create an institutional framework for educating citizens on sustainable development, offering a new understanding of social problems. On the one hand, universities can create and promote knowledge about SD by their educational, expert and research activities, hence developing relevant values among people. On the other hand, universities can become an active agent in implementing the concept of SD by introducing it into its own academic activities. The article considers stakeholder approach as one of the approaches to the implementation of the concept of education for sustainable development (ESD). Therefore based on this approach, the article explores the benefits of the key stakeholders of the sustainable university. Low awareness among key stakeholders is one of the significant factors that hindering the implementation of the SD concept. Due to the lack of a sufficient research focused on studying the interests of the main stakeholders in the framework of ESD, this article is an attempt to narrow this gap.

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