The series of books on ESD( including seven books)

 

VII Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit

(Author: McKeown, Rosalyn, Translated by Wang Min & Wei Dongying etc)

 

Contents

Author’s Note

I. Introduction ..................................... 7

Sustainable Development ............................ 8

Principles of Sustainable Development ............ 8

History of Education for Sustainable Development… 10

Education: Promise and Paradox .................. 10

Thresholds of Education and Sustainability ...... 11

Implementation ....................................... 12

Decision making.......................................12

Quality of Life ..........................................13

II. What is ESD? .............................. 13

Improving Basic Education - The First Priority.......................................... 13

Reorienting Existing Education - The Second Priority .................................14

Public Understanding and Awareness - The Third Priority ............................15

Training - The Fourth Priority ..............................................................15

Formal, Nonformal, and Informal Education ...........................................16

III. Reorienting Education ….................................................. 16

Knowledge ................................................................................... 17

Issues .........................................................................................18

Skills ...........................................................................................20

Perspectives..................................................................................20

Values......................................................................................... 21

IV. Process for Localizing the Global Initiative............................ 24

Strengths Model............................................................................. 24

ESD, an Evolving Concept ............................................................... 26

V. Challenges and Barriers to ESD............................................ 27

Issue 1 - Increasing Awareness: ESD is Essential .....................................27

Issue 2 - Structuring and Placing ESD in the Curriculum ............................. 28

Issue 3 - Linking to Existing Issues: Educational Reform and

Economic Viability...............................................................29

Issue 4 - Facing the Complexity of Sustainable Development Concept ............. 30

Issue 5 - Developing an ESD Program with Community Participation .............. 30

Issue 6 - Engaging Traditional Disciplines in a Transdisciplinary Framework...... 32

Issue 7 - Sharing the Responsibility...................................................... 32

Issue 8 - Building Human Capacity ...................................................... 32

Issue 9 - Developing Financial and Material Resources .............................. 34

Issue 10 - Developing Policy ..............................................................36

Issue 11 - Developing a Creative, Innovative, and Risk-Taking Climate .......... 36

Issue 12 - Promoting Sustainability in Popular Culture ............................... 36

Summary Remark about the 12 Issues .................................................. 37

VI. Dovetailing ESD with Community Sustainability Goals ................... 37

VII. Case Study: Toronto Board of Education Curriculum Revision and Reorientation.. 38

VIII. Reorienting Education Involves Managing Change ...................... 42

Programs, Policies, and Practices...................................................... 43

Program..................................................................................... 44

Policy ........................................................................................ 44

Practice..................................................................................... 45

Management during Change .............................................................48

Other Considerations in Managing Change ........................................... 51

Mission and Vision......................................................................... 52

Readiness and Capability of Change .................................................. 52

Analyzing the Nature of Change Required for Reorienting Education.............. 52

Analyzing and Planning Commitment.................................................. 53

Creating, Implementing, and Monitoring Plans……...................................54

Summary Remarks on Managing Change............................................. 54

IX. Public Participation......................................................... 55

X. Concluding Remarks ........................................................ 58

XI. Exercises to Introduce the Concept of Sustainable Development . 59

1. Drain or Sustain? ......................................................................... 60

2. Drain or Sustain II ......................................................................... 62

3. S.E.E. the Links! .......................................................................... 64

XII. Exercises to Create Community Sustainability Goals ................ 67

1. Meeting your Neighbors.................................................................. 68

2. Building Consensus ...................................................................... 69

3. Seeing your Community through a Sustainability Lens .............................. 70

4. Envisioning a Sustainable Future ...........................................................

5. Creating Community Sustainability Goals: Deciding What is Important .......... 78

XIII. Exercises to Reorient Education to Address Sustainability ........... 82

1. Basic Components of ESD .............................................................. 83

2. Project Y.................................................................................... 85

3. Unity is Strength .......................................................................... 87

4. Weeding the Curriculum ................................................................. 90

5. Making your Ideas Fly! ................................................................... 93

6. Stoplight.................................................................................... 95

7. Issues-Based Education for Sustainability............................................ 98

8. Community Forum....................................................................... 100

XIV. Exercises on Managing Change ...................................... 101

1. Examining Assumptions ............................................................... 103

2. Steering around the Barriers........................................................... 105

3. Inventory of Support and Resistance ................................................. 108

4. Commitment Charting.................................................................. 110

5. Creating an Action Plan................................................................. 113

6. Identifying Communication Strategies............................................... 118

7. Recognizing Values in Action.......................................................... 122

XV. References................................................................. 124

XVI. World Wide Web Resources............................................ 128

I. Information on Sustainability............................................................ 130

II. Education for Sustainable Development............................................. 132

III. Historical United Nations Documents ............................................... 139

IV. Community Action: Sites for Creating Local Sustainability Plans ............... 140

 

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