Development seen as ongoing process following from, say - introduction of a policy, approach or program or even broader than that.
You may be interested in the work I and colleagues have done on GlobalEd2 (GE2). you can find a couple of papers on my profile - perhaps "Developing Scientific Writing Skills through Interdisciplinary, Technology-based Simulations: GlobalEd 2." might be helpful - it has a good explanation of the curriculum in it.
Yes. There's lots of research on your topic in ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicliterature.PublicLiterature.search.html?type=keyword&search-keyword=Theoretical+Framework+for+Sustainable+Development+in+Education&search-abstract=&search-journal=&search=Search
See also: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dieter_Gross
All the best with your research.
Debra
To answer your question, I think it is important first to describe what you understand by sustainable development .From your point of view you will then be able to decide what kind of education leads to sustainable development. For instance, countries that produce graduates that end up not finding jobs or not being employable cannot be said to be engaging in sustainable education. The type of skills developed by our institutions will determine if our education is sustainable or not. If our students can only find work to sustain themselves only if they are employed and cannot use their own creativity to find alternative sources of employment, then our education is not sustainable. There are a lot of examples one can cite of what is not sustainable education. Some countries determine the kind of skills the country needs and make sure that the balance of who does what training is kept, so that most students will be able to find work or will have enough skills to start their own businesses.
Strongly agree with Eunice; you must define what you mean by "sustainable" as the first step. My own interest is whether a change instituted through a development program is sustainable over time whereas others are interested in environmental sustainability issues. These are quite different concerns.
Hi Daniela,
I'm not sure exactly what your question is referring to but if it is in relation to education for sustainable development, then I would suggest you refer to documents by UNESCO on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014).
You might like to start at http://portal.unesco.org/geography/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14131&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
and then follow up at http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/education-for-sustainable-development/
Feel free to check out my article in the Journal of Cleaner Production (available at this website) as well.
Good luck
Liz
From my context, I can see that there are two different conceptualizations here.
1. Education for sustainable development. This is when you educate people to learn how to use natural products and energy in a way that does not harm the environment. e.g. sustainable forest management.
2. Sustainable education for development on the other hand is when you educate your human resources such as Youth and Girls & Women, skills such as skills for life, literacy skills, social entrepreneurial skills susch as simple book keeping and other TVET skills for survival - especially in rural areas of the developing countries because they are the silent majority whose potential to drive the economy is high. That potential is tapped into through sustainable education that can continue or be continued for the rest of their livelihood. Sustainable education does not get to consume a large volume of financial resources because you get to improvise and use cost effective means of educatiing the marginalized youth and women.
Regards.
Dora
In terms of sustainability it might be good to recall 3 sents of principles:
1. The “Seventh Generation Principle” - Originated in the constitution of the Iroquois Nations of North-America. It speaks of having the consideration of how your decision today will impact 7 generations into the future.
2. No debts to the future. This may have Roman origin but was highlight by Tomas Jefferson: "No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence."
3. The sustainable principle from "Our Common Future", also known as the Brundtland Report. where it speaks of: "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
Being that education is so core for the next generations these principles cannot be avoided when we speak of education and sustainable development in this context.
Of course, it is clearly true when one consider teaching the next generation about it.
Sustainable Development as a framework for Legal, Social, Ethical and Professional issues
Sustainable development from my context/perspective and or setting mean means educating students to improvise and use available resources when the going gets tough in an economy. E.g. Teaching Engineering students to use solar water pumps to set up rural water supply if they are not able to use diesel generators or mini hydro power to power up the water to the reservoir tanks then to be redistributed from there. Also other solar energy resources etc are readily available in a tropical country like PNG