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Elisabeth Schuster; Ulrike Ohl – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Sustainable mobility is an urgent topic to discuss in the primary school classroom, given the challenges in the mobility sector regarding sustainability issues and children's embeddedness in these circumstances. Therefore, it seems fruitful to address the topic within the approaches of Education for Sustainable Mobility (ESM) or Education for…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Sustainability, Student Attitudes, Barriers
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Van Poeck, Katrien; Vandenabeele, Joke; Bruyninckx, Hans – Environmental Education Research, 2014
In this paper, we address the implementation of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Flanders, a sub-national entity of Belgium. Our analysis shows how the policy-making process in Flanders is inextricably intertwined with three developments in environmental and educational policy: the increasing impact of ESD policy and…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Educational Policy, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators
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Percy-Smith, Barry – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2010
There is an assumption underlying education for sustainable development that all we need do is learn the skills and knowledge to live sustainably. Yet, many already know the issues and know we "should" act, but we don't. This article argues that a key part of the problem is that we live according to myths and daydreams perpetuated by a…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Ecology, Ecological Factors, Conservation (Environment)
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Zakrajšek, Srecko; Purg, Peter – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2010
The goal of the research was to get an overview on the possibilities of sustainable development in relation to information and communication technologies in primary and secondary schools in Slovenia from the perspective of media ecology. The study analyses the reasons for a reorientation of the educational system and new programmes towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Sustainability
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MacGregor, Jean – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2005
"Sustainable development" is one framework. "Bioregionalism" is another. Both phrases have evolved in an attempt to create a powerful, encompassing vision of planetary wellness and regeneration. Some American practitioner-philosophers of sustainable agriculture argued that people must become thoughtful, responsible dwellers of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Ecology
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Lang, Josephine R. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2005
Amidst Australia's background of ecological devastation there is hope as people and their communities search for ways to re-think and revision their future, moving ever so slowly towards sustainability. For the author, sustainability is the intersection where humanity consciously engages with the ecological systems in ways to ensure all life is…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development