Reorienting Educational Efforts for Sustainable Development

Experiences from South Asia

Rajeswari Namagiri Gorana, Preeti Rawat Kanaujia (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

205 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-024-1396-0 (ISBN)

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Education in South Asia has a renewed agenda which can enable societies to leapfrog development that is sustainable such that the individual is prepared for his/her involvement, responsibility and commitment to local and global discussions of our common future. This book on South Asia will focus on initiatives under the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) umbrella and discuss the challenges, opportunities, issues and strategies in the countries of the region. It presents these initiatives of Environmental Education/ESD vis-à-vis the administrative, economic, social, cultural and ecological realities of each country at various levels of policy, planning, implementation and evaluation. The discussions in this book extend beyond formal education systems like schools, higher education, pre-service and in-service teacher preparation to community education and education initiatives conceptualized with the goal of sustainability. All initiatives will demonstrate how each country in its own pace contributing to move ESD from the periphery to the core of education initiatives.

1. Schooling for Sustainable Development in South Asian Countries
(Rajeswari N. Gorana).- 2. A New Paradigm of Education towards Sustainable
Development (Rajeswari N. Gorana).- 3. The Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development in South Asia (Madhavi Joshi).- 4. Education for Sustainable
Development (ESD) Initiatives and Programmes in Bangladesh (Md. Salequzzaman).-
5. Gross National Happiness, Values Education and Schooling for Sustainability
in Bhutan (Karma Ura).- 6. Environmental Education in India – The Shifting
Paradigm (Shailaja Ravindranath).- 7. Developing Textbooks in India: Some
Experiences of Introducing the ESD Perspective (Mamata Pandya).- 8. ESD in the
Small Island State of Maldives (Mohamed Shareef).- 9. Integration of
Environmental Education into the National Education System of Nepal (Badri Dev
Pande).- 10. Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges in Pakistan
(Tahir Dhindsa).- 11. Education for Sustainable Development for a Peaceful and
Sustainable Sri Lanka (Upali M. Sedere).- 12. Lessons Learned from South Asia
(Rajeswari N. Gorana).

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Schooling for Sustainable Development ; 7
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, color; XXXII, 205 p. 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
Schlagworte	Eco-social Education • Education for sustainable development (ESD) • Education in South Asia • Environmental education • school education • sustainable development
ISBN-10	94-024-1396-0 / 9402413960
ISBN-13	978-94-024-1396-0 / 9789402413960
Zustand	Neuware