Sustainability education
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Part of the 2013 Diamond Series, Efrat Eilam and Colin Hocking will present Sustainability education: Meanings and contexts for schools and communities.
Recent studies reveal worrying gaps between the sustainability education programs that are implemented at schools and the sustainability issues which occupy communities' daily lives.
It was found that while the sustainability agenda of the communities was highly related to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2012-2015) International Implementation Scheme, schools' programs are primarily focusing on environmental aspects.
Our discussion aims at uncovering the nature of the relationships between schools and their communities and looks at ways for increasing the relevance and presence of the communities within the sustainability education programs carried out at schools.
Discussion topics
Focussing on school-community relationships:
- What kind of relationships would we like to see with regard to sustainability education?
- How can sustainability curriculum be contextualised to address the needs and the agendas of local communities?
- What potential barriers (administrative, conceptual and other) can be foreseen?
- What are the potential bridges?
- Examples/breakthroughs
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