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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Can we meet the sustainability challenges? The role of education and lifelong learning
Contributor:
Wals, Arjen E. J.;
Benavot, Aaron
imprint:
Wiley, 2017
Published in:
European Journal of Education, 52 (2017) 4, Seite 404-413
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/ejed.12250
ISSN:
0141-8211;
1465-3435
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Education and lifelong learning are increasingly being mobilised to address the global environmental crisis and accompanying sustainability challenges. This article discusses the many roles of education about and for sustainable development, drawing on evidence and arguments put forward in the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report, <jats:italic>Education for People and Planet</jats:italic>. It highlights specific viewpoints, values and ways of thinking that best characterize effective learning for sustainability. It also emphasises the importance of a ‘whole school’ or ‘whole institutional’ approach to education for sustainability.</jats:p>