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Sustainable Development Skills and Education for Sustainable Development
Education for Sustainable Development is essential if people are firstly to understand and accept the need for significant changes to the way the country operates internationally, nationally, locally and in business practice. Secondly it is essential if people are to understand and agree to make, as individuals, the kinds of behavioural changes necessary to make the whole thing work. Informed choices can only be made by people who understand the options and the issues and know the cost of whichever course of action is decided upon.
Skills in England 2007 is the LSC’s annual skills assessment, providing an up-to-date assessment of the skills arena and highlighting the key skills issues facing businesses in England which the LSC and its partners will have to address. It identifies sustainable development as one of the new challenges following the publication of the Stern Review in 2006.
Skills and education for sustainable development is needed both in the holistic management of an FE provider's organisation and also in the links it has with employers and businesses. It is also important to embed sustainable development into the organisation's curriculum, teaching and learning practices.
Education for sustainable development mirrors the concern for education of high quality, demonstrating characteristics: such as:
The then Department for Education and Skills published the Sustainable Development Action Plan for Education and Skills, in 2003. It set out an ambitious learning agenda for providers to operate in a more environmentally sustainable way and to teach it as well.
It sees an important leading role for the FE system in furthering sustainable development in a range of vocational specialisms, mainly because the sector places strong emphasis upon developing excellent vocational provision that focuses on meeting the skills needs of employers.
The plan is now being taken forward by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the important role of the FE system in sustainable development has recently been given further impetus in the Leitch Implementation Plan:
Skills in England 2007 is the LSC’s annual skills assessment, providing an up-to-date assessment of the skills arena and highlighting the key skills issues facing businesses in England which the LSC and its partners will have to address. It identifies sustainable development as one of the new challenges following the publication of the Stern Review in 2006.
Skills and education for sustainable development is needed both in the holistic management of an FE provider's organisation and also in the links it has with employers and businesses. It is also important to embed sustainable development into the organisation's curriculum, teaching and learning practices.
Education for sustainable development mirrors the concern for education of high quality, demonstrating characteristics: such as:
- Interdisciplinary and holistic: learning for sustainable development embedded in the whole curriculum, not as a separate subject.
- Values-driven: sharing the values and principles underpinning sustainable development.
- Critical thinking and problem solving: leading to confidence in addressing the dilemmas and challenges of sustainable development.
- Multi-method: word, art, drama, debate, experience, and different pedagogies which model the processes.
- Participatory decision-making: learners participate in decisions on how they are to learn.
- Locally relevant: addressing local as well as global issues, and using the language(s) which learners most commonly use.
The then Department for Education and Skills published the Sustainable Development Action Plan for Education and Skills, in 2003. It set out an ambitious learning agenda for providers to operate in a more environmentally sustainable way and to teach it as well.
It sees an important leading role for the FE system in furthering sustainable development in a range of vocational specialisms, mainly because the sector places strong emphasis upon developing excellent vocational provision that focuses on meeting the skills needs of employers.
The plan is now being taken forward by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the important role of the FE system in sustainable development has recently been given further impetus in the Leitch Implementation Plan:
