Education for sustainable development

What is it about?

Education for sustainable development aims to find sustainable solutions to local and global problems through a transformative perspective. Its core ideas are social justice and cultural diversity. Today, the crucial goal is to learn to live sustainably. Achieving a sustainable foundation requires changes in values, lifestyles, and policies globally. This again requires education systems, educational institutions and educators with a willingness to tackle sustainability problems and the ability to respond to them.

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Photo by Katja Anokhina on Unsplash

Photo by Katja Anokhina on Unsplash

Why is it important?

As a useful way to promote thinking and behavioral change of individuals and enable co-operation between actors is transformative education. Its objective is to foster individuals’ critical thinking and support them in changing their own reality. According to Sustainable Development Goal 5, education should address social and power aspects as well as gender inequality to reduce gender inequality and improve human well-being. Gender inequalities do not in themselves cause environmental problems, e.g. climate change, the loss of biodiversity or social problems. However, they affect the thinking and action of individuals and communities worldwide. Climate change and other environmental issues can best be addressed through cooperation between stakeholders based on scientific knowledge. Thus improving women's education and participation in society is important not only for human beeing but also for the planet.