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Reorienting Educational Efforts for Sustainable Development

Experiences from South Asia

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Editors:
  1. Rajeswari Namagiri Gorana

    1. Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Children’s Media Unit, Ahmedabad, India

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  2. Preeti Rawat Kanaujia

    1. Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Northern Regional Cell, Lucknow, India

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  • Discusses the broad underpinnings of the new paradigm of education
  • Discussions in this book go beyond formal education systems
  • All countries in South Asia are presented in this book

Part of the book series: Schooling for Sustainable Development (SSDE)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. Schooling for Sustainable Development in South Asian Countries

    • Rajeswari Namagiri Gorana, Preeti Rawat Kanaujia
    Pages 1-19

  3. A New Paradigm of Education Towards Sustainable Development

    • Rajeswari Namagiri Gorana, Preeti Rawat Kanaujia
    Pages 21-34

  4. The Decade of Education for Sustainable Development in South Asia

    • Madhavi Joshi, Ramboojh Yadav
    Pages 35-52

  5. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Initiatives and Programmes in Bangladesh

    • Md. Salequzzaman, Rajeswari Namagiri Gorana
    Pages 53-70

  6. Gross National Happiness, Values Education and Schooling for Sustainability in Bhutan

    • Dasho Karma Ura
    Pages 71-88

  7. Environmental Education in India – The Shifting Paradigm

    • Shailaja Ravindranath
    Pages 89-109

  8. Developing Textbooks in India: Some Experiences of Introducing the ESD Perspective

    • Mamata Pandya
    Pages 111-136

  9. ESD in the Small Island State of Maldives

    • Mohamed Shareef
    Pages 137-150

  10. Integration of Environmental Education into the National Education System of Nepal

    • Badri Dev Pande
    Pages 151-163

  11. Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges in Pakistan

    • Tahir Ahmad Dhindsa
    Pages 165-178

  12. Education for Sustainable Development for a Peaceful and Sustainable Sri Lanka

    • Upali M. Sedere
    Pages 179-197

  13. Lessons Learned from South Asia

    • Rajeswari Namagiri Gorana, Preeti Rawat Kanaujia
    Pages 199-205
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About this book

Education in South Asia has a renewed agenda which can enable societies to leapfrog development that is sustainable such that the individual is prepared for his/her involvement, responsibility and commitment to local and global discussions of our common future. This book on South Asia will focus on initiatives under the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) umbrella and discuss the challenges, opportunities, issues and strategies in the countries of the region. It presents these initiatives of Environmental Education/ESD vis-à-vis the administrative, economic, social, cultural and ecological realities of each country at various levels of policy, planning, implementation and evaluation. The discussions in this book extend beyond formal education systems like schools, higher education, pre-service and in-service teacher preparation to community education and education initiatives conceptualized with the goal of sustainability. All initiatives will demonstrate how each country in its own pace contributing to move ESD from the periphery to the core of education initiatives.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Children’s Media Unit, Ahmedabad, India

    Rajeswari Namagiri Gorana

  • Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Northern Regional Cell, Lucknow, India

    Preeti Rawat Kanaujia

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reorienting Educational Efforts for Sustainable Development

  • Book Subtitle: Experiences from South Asia

  • Editors: Rajeswari Namagiri Gorana, Preeti Rawat Kanaujia

  • Series Title: Schooling for Sustainable Development

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7622-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7620-2Published: 13 July 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1396-0Published: 07 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7622-6Published: 01 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 205

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Geography, Science Education, Sustainable Development

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