Special Issue Description


Authors : Ritika P. Singh,Gauri Kakas, Ankush Kale

Page Nos : 64-70

Description :
Sustainable development is the need to integrate social, environmental, and economic concerns so as to arrive at development paths which meet the needs of present generations, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Education for sustainable development is a vision of education that seeks to balance human and economic well-being with cultural traditions and respect for the Earth’s natural resources. Education for sustainable development has come to be seen as a process of learning how to make decisions that consider the long term future of the economy, ecology and social well-being of all communities. Education for sustainable development must explore the economic, political and social implications of sustainability by encouraging learners to reflect critically on their own areas of the world, to identify non-viable elements in their own lives and to explore the tensions among conflicting aims. This paper primarily deals with the UNESCO sustainable development goals (SDG), especially the SDG 4 – ‘quality education and lifelong opportunities for all’ and its empirical and theoretical background as well. The authors have tried to review the literature on ‘education for sustainable development’ (ESD) and ‘sustainability in education’ to assess the definition and best practices of ‘Sustainable Education’. By adopting Sterling’s ‘triple bottom line model’ (of Sustainable Development) the authors have tried to develop a conceptual model of sustainable education for Indian school education system.

Date of Online: 30 16,July.2020