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Pedagogical Training for Sustainability Education

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Quality Education

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Education for sustainable development; Education to achieve sustainable development; Teaching methods for education for sustainable development; Teaching techniques

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Sustainability education (referred to as “SE” hereafter) prepares individuals to plan for, cope with, and find solutions for the issues that threaten the sustainability of our planet. SE empowers students to take informed decisions and responsible actions to ensure economic viability, just society, and environmental integrity, while respecting cultural diversity. The aim of SE is to encourage the transformation of education so that it is able to contribute effectively to the reorientation of societies toward sustainability or sustainable development. In simple words, we can also define “SE” as education to achieve sustainable development.

Pedagogy is referred to as learning processes and learning environment usually created/facilitated by teachers in the classroom. In simple words it is the act of...

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  1. Graduate Program in Sustainability Science – Global Leadership Initiative, Department of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

    Sadaf Taimur

  2. University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

    Sadaf Taimur

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

    Rudi Pretorius PhD

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Taimur, S. (2020). Pedagogical Training for Sustainability Education. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Quality Education. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69902-8_51-1

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