The United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (and 169 targets) are quite rightly ambitious and all encompassing. We have recent work which gives us clues about how sustainability can be embedded in curricula, e.g.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282505807_Beyond_the_Curriculum_Integrating_Sustainability_into_Business_Schools
But, what do we know about how we might go about integrating the 17 goals?
How do we select which to include/exclude? How do we make that decision?
How do we become aware about what is or isn't covered?
What are the complexities and tensions integrating them?
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
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This set of difficult questions—and there can be no one-size-fits-all answer—is well worth asking. Coincidentally, UNESCO has just published Education for Sustainable Development Goals: Learning Objectives (2017) in recognition of the hard truth that "[e]mbarking on the path of sustainable development will require a profound transformation of how we think and act. To create a more sustainable world and to engage with sustainability-related issues as described in the SDGs, individuals must become sustainability change-makers. They require the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that empower them to contribute to sustainable development. Education, therefore, is crucial for the achievement of sustainable development."
UNESCO's excellent and timely publication identifies learning objectives across the SDGs as well as approaches to implementing learning for the SDGs through Education for Sustainable Development (the latter section deals with integrating ESD in policies, strategies, programs, curricula, textbooks, and teacher education; delivering ESD in the classroom and other learning settings; and assessing ESD learning outcomes and the quality of ESD programs. Some will now rightly ask about next steps so Churchill's wisdom comes to mind: "It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all."
I have spoken on Youth and the Global Goals; the presentation is at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302377627_Youth_and_the_Global_Goals. There is also Understand: the Sustainable Development Goals, a project regrouping 18 references at https://www.researchgate.net/project/Understand-The-Sustainable-Development-Goals.
Presentation Youth and the Global Goals
Do you know about the Audit Instrument for Sustainability in Higher Education?
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https://niko.roorda.nu/management-methods/aishe/
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