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Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

Engaging Faculties of Education Manitoba 2009


Chuck Hopkins UNESCO and UN University Chairs York University

science

Our pressures on the planet have increased with numbers


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6.7 billion (2009)

4 billion (1975) 2 billion (1920) 1 billion (1800)

0 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100 Year

Source: UN Population Division 2004; Lee, 2003; Population Reference Bureau

Generating great wealth but paying a great price


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$70 trillion in 2008


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World GDP (trillion 1990 dollars)

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$10 trillion in 1967


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$1 trillion in 1900

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Source: CIA World Fact Book

Great wealth without FCC Full Cost Accounting

Biomass of Table Fish (tons per km2)

2000 1900
Source: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment; Christensen et al. 2003

From: Steffen et al. 2004

From: Steffen et al. 2004

Our Students Eventual Greatest Challenges


Provide for 50% more people: using less water using less land using fewer ocean food resources while tripling the global energy (carbon free) addressing new issues as they emerge developing employable skill sets etc.

The Evolving Concept of Sustainable Development


Global Change (environment) Globalization (economic) Human Development (social/culture) Sustainable Development

Plus concepts of: Intergenerational responsibility Need verses greed /equity Social justice, etc.

Manitobas Sustainability Threats


Environmental certainly but also Social issues such as racism, inclusion, equity, poverty, citizenship, relationships. Economic issues such as preparing for the world of work, managing money and larger issues such as creating new opportunities.. Plus the global issues that face us all.

Understanding EE and ESD


Environmental Education, Population Education, Development Education, Energy Education, HIV/AIDS Education, Permaculture Education, Citizenship Education, Democracy Education, Consumer Education, Media Education, Outdoor Education, Experiential Education, Workplace Education, Conservation Education, Anti-Racist Education, Religious Education, Equity Education, Gender Education, Holocaust Education, Entrepreneurship Education, Horticulture Education, Water Education, Global Education, Drug Education, Sex Education, International Studies, Family Studies, Human Rights Education, Women's Studies, Native Studies, Values Education, Natural History Education, Vocational Education, Economic Education, Anti-smoking Education, Conflict Resolution Education, Workplace education, Disaster Prevention Education, Computer Studies, LifeSkills Education, Recycling Education, Civics Education, Heritage Education, Community Studies, Multicultural Education, AntiViolence Education, Systems Thinking Education, Futures Education, Biodiversity Education, Pioneer Studies, Nutrition Education, Resource Management Education, Self-Image Education, Peace Education, Leadership Education, Cooperative Education, Character Education, Sexual orientation Education.(100 plus)

Sustainable Dev. and Education (ESD)


ESD is the potential contribution of the worlds education, public awareness, and training systems to building a more sustainable future.

Thus ESD varies from situation to situation depending on the local/global environmental, social and economic threats both current and emerging

Four Major Thrusts of ESD


Access and retention to quality education

Reorienting existing education


Public awareness and understanding

Training programs for all sectors


Agenda 21 -92, UNESCO -96, UNCSD -98, JPOI -2002

A Question for All Societies


What should our students: know, be able to do, and value, when they graduate?

UNESCO Purpose of Education


To Know To Do To Become To live together (To live together with others sustainably)

Global Awakening Formal Ed.


Formal education leaders are taking action (CMEC) Collaboration Regional levels UNECE, Asia Pacific, ESD Indicators are being developed Engagement of core disciplines professional organizations ESD research platforms being established New ESD Research Journals Embedding ESD initiatives mainstream projects ESD concept linking to ECE, Spec. ED, TVET, Lifelong learning / adult education

Manitoba an ESD Leader in Canada

UN Decade of ESD (2005-2014)


Co-coordinated internationally by UNESCO Each country/region to develop locally relevant and culturally appropriate response

Formal, non-formal and informal ed. Included


www.unesco.org/education/undesd

Key Agents Canadian Commission for UNESCO Environment Canada Canadian Council of Ministers of Education

UNESCO World Conference on ESD 2009


31 March 2 April 2009, 900 participants from 150 countries, 48 ministers and vice-ministers Objectives: to highlight the contribution of ESD to quality education; to promote international exchange on ESD; to take stock of Decade activities; to develop strategies for the way ahead

Bonn Declaration A Call for Action:


Promote ESDs contribution to all of education and to achieving quality education Increase public awareness and understanding about sustainable development and ESD Mobilize adequate resources , in particular through integrating ESD into national development policy and budgetary frameworks Support the incorporation of sustainable development issues [e.g., climate change] using an integrated and systemic approach in formal education as well as in non-formal and informal education at all levels

Bonn Declaration A Call for Action:


At the practice level Support the incorporation of sustainable development issues [e.g., climate change] using an integrated and systemic approach in formal education as well as in nonformal and informal education at all levels, in particular through the development of effective pedagogical approaches, teacher education, teaching practice, curricula, learning materials, and education leadership development.

Teacher-educators
Have broad influence
Educate next generation of teachers. Sit on national curriculum committees. Write textbooks for elementary & secondary. Invited to give advice to ministries. Speak at conferences. Publish. At local, regional, and national levels.

International Network Formed


Met in 2000, Canada, Baseline reports, Agreed to experiment at home institutions. Set up reporting format. Met in 2002. South Africa Sent in reports and responded to survey. Met in 2004. Sweden Reviewed draft of guidelines. Met in 2006 Finland Establishing regional UNESCO networks Met in 2008 Turkey - Launch phase 2

Recommendations: Research
Create a research agenda to address important questions, such as the effectiveness of faculty efforts to reorient education to address sustainability.

Develop strong arguments backed by research to submit to academic boards to show that education for the future that does not include ESD is not an appropriate education for the future.

Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre: Mtis Holistic Lifelong Learning Model

Redefining Success in Aboriginal Learning


Principles of Learning: FN Emerging Model Harmony and Well Being: Individual and Collective
Purpose To protect the earth to ensure sustainability of all life. Principles of Learning Holistic (physical, emotional, social and spiritual), experience based and cumulative (life-long) personal and collective (individual and community or societal focused connected tonatural world, language, traditions and ceremonies, self, family, ancestors, clan, community nations and other nations intergenerational nurtured by mentors, elders, guides, etc.) natural or organic, integrated, dynamic evolving process with depth in knowledge (wisdom) emerging as the ultimate outcome circular (self-generating) and available at all stages of life promotes responsibility, adaptability and interdependence respectful of place and the natural order of life at its core it is culturally based language based and open to new experience and knowledge (Indigenous and Western traditions) can be enhanced or disrupted by physical, social, cultural and political environment (natural, social, economic and political environments)

Systemic Challenges for both EE and ESD


vision and awareness policy or mandate societys expectation funding and resources training programs crowded curriculum research base models and exemplars

OECD ESD Problems


Hard to serve students suffer Not seen as relevant to testing reading and math Poverty related issues Irrelevant to core curricula Technical and vocational ed. Untrained staff Lack of meaningful equipment

The Need for Hope


Speak of solutions Our ability to change/survive etc Age appropriate Education verses indoctrination Ministry guidelines and Our need to learn by acting and experimenting now before the worlds poor suffer unbearably! We will change but when and how!

Reorienting Existing Education


Currently our most educated nations leave the deepest ecological footprints We have ED systems for Dev. Rather Than SD

Reorienting Existing Education

We need more

ecological handprints!! - From all sources!

www.handsforchange.org

Infusing EE

Means Addressing:
Values Principles Perspectives Knowledge Skills

But again in a context of education rather than indoctrination

Infusing EE into Existing Education Means Addressing:


Buildings Program Practices and actions What we value and what we evaluate Modeling sustainability

SEdA Domains
Governance: policy, goals, mission Curriculum, teaching and learning Human Capacity: professional development Facilities, operations, procurement

Community: relationships Commitment: System culture and ethos Leadership

Prof Dev. Considerations


Prof development for all employees including leaders PD and teacher education institutions Capacity building Technology transfer for support staff

Rewarding innovative practices

Ministries and Faculties of Ed


Learning Perspectives
Traditional Learning as acquisition model Knowledge, solutions, true/false right/wrong Plus Learning as participation model complexity, reflexive, reflection, negotiation

And Learning as a response model ambiguity in world, taking charge-life, tolerance, engagement

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Strengths Model:
A Starting Point for Formal ed.
No single discipline/group/teacher/employee can do it all

Every discipline/group/teacher/employee can contribute something


Some individuals or sectors can take lead roles in directing/managing the reorientation Leadership and coordination of these strengths are key as we learn our way forward

Industrial Arts

Economics The Arts History Literacy Health Math Media Arts

Geography
Energy savings

Science

Family Studies

IN Phase Two - (2010-2014)


Goals 1 - To implement the Guidelines 2 - To develop regional networks 3 - To further refine the Guidelines 4 - To assist in the overarching SD strategies (internationally - local) 5 Research into ESD competencies, impact, contributions delivery schemes, EfSD vs EuSD

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