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Sustainability Education: Comparison
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Sustainability education is a structured educational approach that equips learners with the knowledge, values, competencies, and agency needed to address environmental, social, and economic challenges in integrated ways [1][2][3][4][5]. It goes beyond teaching sustainability topics as isolated content by fostering systems thinking, critical reflection, futures thinking, and action competence for real-world problem solving [1][2]. Sustainability education is characterized by interdisciplinary learning, participatory pedagogy, context-based inquiry, and attention to justice, equity, and long-term responsibility across local and global scales [2][3][4][5]. In policy and research contexts, the term denotes intentional educational processes aligned with sustainable development goals and societal transformation, rather than general environmental awareness activities without explicit competency and action-oriented outcomes.

  • sustainability education
  • education for sustainable development
  • systems thinking
  • sustainability competencies
  • transformative learning

 Environmental and sustainability education •  Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law • Environmental Science •  Physical Sciences

References

  1. UNESCO. Education for Sustainable Development Goals: Learning Objectives; UNESCO: Paris, 2017. Source: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000247444.
  2. Arnim Wiek; Lauren Withycombe; Charles L. Redman; Key competencies in sustainability: a reference framework for academic program development. Sustain. Sci. 2011, 6, 203-218. [CrossRef]
  3. Marco Rieckmann; Future-oriented higher education: Which key competencies should be fostered through university teaching and learning?. Futures 2012, 44, 127-135. [CrossRef]
  4. Rodrigo Lozano; Michelle Y. Merrill; Kaisu Sammalisto; Kim Ceulemans; Francisco J. Lozano; Connecting Competences and Pedagogical Approaches for Sustainable Development in Higher Education: A Literature Review and Framework Proposal. Sustainability 2017, 9, 1889. [CrossRef]
  5. Tilbury, D. Education for Sustainable Development: An Expert Review of Processes and Learning; UNESCO: Paris, 2011. Source: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000191442.
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