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Quality Education pp 1–15Cite as

Education for Sustainable Development: Strategies and Key Issues

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

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Civic education; Climate change education; Education; Education for Sustainability (EfS); Environmental education; Human rights education; Learning; Public awareness; Sustainability education (SE); Training

Definition

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a form of education that emphasizes the development of skills and habits necessary for individuals, and thus their communities, to live in a way that contributes to a world that is “sustainable” – i.e., one that fulfils their own current needs without inhibiting the ability of future generations to do the same. Designed to be a component of a community’s broader Sustainable Development Agenda, ESD’s impact goes beyond training and short-term skills development. In this way, it can be conceived of as a comprehensive and transformative educational process in which participatory learning and creative, critical, and systemic thinking are strengthened by creating the links between individuals and community that allow them...

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I would like to thank Andrew Foley for invaluable research assistantship and acknowledge the support provided by the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (CONICYT/FONDAP/15130009) of Chile

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Egana del Sol, P.A. (2019). Education for Sustainable Development: Strategies and Key Issues. 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_3-1

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