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Children and Sustainable Development

Ecological Education in a Globalized World

  • Presents an integrated scientific, pedagogical, social, and spiritual vision of ecological education for children
  • Provides key information on harnessing COP21 guidelines and new sustainable development models to mobilize education for children
  • Helps to map the educational changes needed in today’s school systems and teacher training by exploring case-based experiences from developed and developing countries
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. How Could Education Evolve in a Diversity of Contexts?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
    2. Education for Sustainable Development

      • Margaret S. Archer
      Pages 103-125
    3. Low Attainers in a Global Knowledge Economy

      • Sally Tomlinson
      Pages 127-139
    4. Unequal World, Unequal Education

      • Bernard Hugonnier
      Pages 141-147
    5. Fe y Alegría and the Educational Challenges and Opportunities of Our World

      • Luis Arancibia Tapia, Ignacio Suñol
      Pages 149-158
    6. AmritaRITE: A Holistic Model for Inclusive Education in Rural India

      • Prema Nedungadi, Raghu Raman, Radhika Menon, Karunya Mulki
      Pages 171-184
  3. Children, Students and Teachers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

About this book

This book addresses the changes in education practices, especially basic education, necessitated by the global challenges of climate change and sustainable development and in a context characterized by increasing poverty and inequality, migration and refugees. 

Written by a range of international scholars, scientists and grassroots practitioners from Africa, Latin America, Asia (India, China, Malaysia) and Europe, the individual contributions focus on education policies and child development in various social contexts. Case-based experiences from both developed and developing countries provide inspiration and shed new light on the fundamental changes needed to adapt existing school systems and teacher training to face the challenges of the future. In this regard, the need to empower children themselves is emphasized.

All contributions are based on a Workshop hosted in November 2015 by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican entitled “Children and Sustainable Development: A Challenge for Education” and follow three other significant events on sustainable development in 2015, namely the publication of Laudato Si’, the Encyclical Letter from Pope Francis, the release of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and the COP21 Conference in Paris. 

 



Editors and Affiliations

  • Academia Nacional de Educación, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Antonio M. Battro

  • Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

    Pierre Léna

  • The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, Holy See (Vatican City State)

    Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo

  • Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Joachim von Braun

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Children and Sustainable Development

  • Book Subtitle: Ecological Education in a Globalized World

  • Editors: Antonio M. Battro, Pierre Léna, Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Joachim von Braun

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47130-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47129-7Published: 16 December 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83662-1Published: 29 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47130-3Published: 08 December 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 433

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 69 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Science Education, Sustainable Development, Development Aid, Religion and Society, Child Well-being, Climate Change Management and Policy

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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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