Overview
- Examines the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programs in schools across Europe
- Features case studies from individual countries and regions throughout Europe
- Helps readers gain valuable insights into how to help students develop the knowledge, skills and values needed to shape a sustainable future
Part of the book series: Schooling for Sustainable Development (SSDE, volume 6)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General and Cross-National Issues
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Front Matter
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Case Studies from Individual Countries or Regions
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Capacity Building
- Criteria for ESD Schools
- ESD in Cities and Communities
- Eco-social Education
- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
- Environmental Education
- Formal and Non-formal Learning
- Local Communal Learning
- Nature-based Education
- School and Sustainability Network
- Social Learning
- Sustainable Society
- Teacher Training
- Teaching and Learning Methods
About this book
This book examines the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programs in schools across Europe. It describes and analyzes how individual countries and the region as a whole have established teaching and learning methods to help students develop the competencies needed to be part of a sustainable society.
Featuring chapters written by experts throughout Europe, the book first provides a general overview of ESD in various contexts, including the state-of-the-art of ESD theory and conceptual development; political and social analysis; the various concepts of ESD competencies; and teacher training. Next, the book details how ESD has been implemented in different European countries and regions, including: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Catalonia, Hungary, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Flanders, France, Cyprus, UK and the Netherlands.
In recognition of education as a motor of change, the United Nations General Assembly declared a Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), calling for the integration of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning. Inside this book, readers will find details on what has been done, as well as assessments of what more could be done, across Europe. It will help readers gain valuable insights into how to help students develop the knowledge, skills and values needed to shape a sustainable future.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rolf Jucker is currently teamleader at Kaospilots Switzerland and a coach and consultant in organisational learning processes towards sustainability. Until the end of 2013 he ran the department of conceptual ESD development at the Swiss Foundation for ESD, éducation21. From 2008–2012 he was director of the Swiss Foundation for Environmental Education, an independent body tasked with the mainstreaming of Environmental Education and ESD in the Swiss school system. Having gained an MSc in Education for Sustainability, he has worked extensively as an international ESD advisor and has widely published on the subject, amongst others Our Common Illiteracy. Education as if the Earth and People mattered (2002).
Reiner Mathar is currently heading the coordination of ESD in the state of Hessen (Germany), is German representative of the KMK (Standing Conference of Ministers of Education in Germany) at the Steering Committee of UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) and Member of the National Round Table for the UN-Decade on ESD in Germany. Since 1997 he has been involved in all nation-wide programmes on ESD in Germany, in particular in the process of developing the concept of "Gestaltungskompetenz", which is the leading concept of ESD in Germany. In the field of ESD with a focus on global development, he is one of the editors of the national curriculum framework. In 2010 he was co-opted as an expert on ESD onto the international ESD-EXPERT-net (India, Germany, Mexico and South-Africa).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Schooling for Sustainable Development in Europe
Book Subtitle: Concepts, Policies and Educational Experiences at the End of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
Editors: Rolf Jucker, Reiner Mathar
Series Title: Schooling for Sustainable Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09549-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09548-6Published: 07 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38113-8Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09549-3Published: 27 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 380
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Science Education, Sustainable Development