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for Sustainable
Development
Denise Summers
Autumn 2009
Questions to Consider
What is sustainability?
Why should we bother
with it?
The challenge to education
The implications of
sustainable education
Sustainability literacy
and competencies
A wonderful world?
What is sustainable
development?
Development which meets:
However,
sustainability and
development are
contradictory concepts and
sustainable development
is just economic growth
dressed up in the language
of deliberate obfuscation,
used knowingly or not by
those who care nothing for
the Earth in order to fool
us into thinking that they
are taking her concerns
seriously.
(Harding, 2006: 232)
In pursuit of happiness
If I were caught in the
As Professor Daniel
Kahneman of the
University of Princeton
suggests, our
standard of living has
increased dramatically
and happiness has
increased not at all and
in some cases has
diminished slightly"
(Kahneman, 2007,
http://news.bbc.co.uk).
Climate Change
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global warming
peak oil
insecurities
unsustainability
uncertainty
globalisation
dense
interdependence
stresses
complexity
ecosystem
degradation overconsumption
population
pressures
inequity
Aspects of Well-being
Basic Needs Food, shelter, secure livelihood
Good Health Physical and mental health and
a robust natural environment
Healthy Social
A supportive social network
Relations
Security Personal safety and security of
ones possessions
development potential
http://eduwight.iow.gov.uk/parent/my_child/images/EveryChildMattersteenagerspiderchart.pdf
1. Living within
environmental limits
2. Ensuring a strong,
healthy and just
society
3. Achieving a sustainable
economy
4. Promoting good
governance
5. Using sound science
responsibly
2.
3.
4.
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A Sustainable Society
is one that can
persist over
generations, one that
is far-seeing enough,
flexible enough, and
wise enough not to
undermine either its
physical or social
systems of support.
Meadows et al, 2005
A Environmentally sound
B Socially acceptable
C Economically viable
Goal of UN Decade of
Education for Sustainable
Development 2005-14
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29008&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Key Questions ??
In what ways does our practice advance
the kind of learning, teaching, thinking
and research that contribute to
unsustainability?
References
Harding S (2006) Animate Earth. Dartington: Green Books Ltd.
Kahneman D (2007) The Science of Happiness
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/ happiness_formula/4783836.stm
(date accessed 22.2.08)
Kumar S (2006) No Destination an Autobiography. Dartington: Green
Books Ltd.
Monbiot G (2005) A restraint of liberty, The Guardian, 24 May, p23.
Scott W (2002) Sustainability and learning: what role for the curriculum?
Inaugural Lecture, University of Bath, April 25.
Selby D (2007) As the heating happens: Education for Sustainable
Development or Education for Sustainable Contraction? International
Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Vol 2, Nos 3/4, pp 249267
Sterling S (1996) Education for Change in Huckle J and Sterling S (Eds)
(1996) Education for Sustainability. London: Earthscan.
Sustainable Development Commission (2009) Every Childs Future Matters.
www.sd-commission.org.uk (date accessed 7.12.09)