Education Policy as a Roadmap for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Education Policy as a Roadmap for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Alison Taysum
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1839092971

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been agreed globally in an unprecedented ambitious and innovative agenda for prosperity and peace for people and planet. This book provides a roadmap for achieving the paradigm shift to achieve the SGDs from an Educational perspective.

Education Policy as a Roadmap for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Education Policy as a Roadmap for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Alison Taysum
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1839092998

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been agreed globally in an unprecedented ambitious and innovative agenda for prosperity and peace for people and planet. This book provides a roadmap for achieving the paradigm shift to achieve the SGDs from an Educational perspective.

The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda

The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda
Author: Stephanie E.L. Bengtsson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2018-03-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351390872

The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda explores the relationship between education and other key sectors of development in the context of the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda. While it is widely understood that there is a positive relationship between education and other dimensions of development, and populations around the world show a clear desire for more and better education, education remains an under-financed and under-prioritised sector within development. When education does make it onto the agenda, investment is usually diverted towards increasing access to formal schooling, without focusing on the intrinsic value of education as a tool for development within the international development community more broadly. The authors explore these tensions through a review of literature from a range of disciplines, providing a clearer picture of the relationship between education and other development sectors. The book challenges silo-thinking in the SDGs by exploring how achieving the SDG education targets can be expected to support or hinder progress towards other targets, and vice-versa. Drawing on examples from both low and high income countries, the book demonstrates how ‘good’ education functions as an ‘enabling right’, impacting positively on many other areas. The book’s scope ranges across education and development studies, economics, geography, sociology and environmental studies, and will be of interest to any researchers and students with an interest in education and the SDGs.

Research, Teaching and Actions in Higher Education on the Un Sustainable Development Goals

Research, Teaching and Actions in Higher Education on the Un Sustainable Development Goals
Author: María Alcantud Díaz
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2021-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781527571778

The UN is currently focused on monitoring and improving learning outcomes and people who are generally excluded from education. Indeed, in its Agenda 2030, higher education forms an important part of the UNâ (TM)s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to poverty, hunger, health, education and gender equality. This volume brings together contributions that provide research and teaching experiences, as well as reflections on actions taken in higher education institutes, associated with these SDGs.

Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Kim Beasy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789819938018

This book focuses on the complex relationship between education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlights how important context is for both critiquing and achieving the Goals though education, given the critical role teachers, schools and curriculum play in young people’s lives. Readers will find examples of thinking and practice across the spectrum of education and training sectors, both formal and informal. The book adds to the increasing body of literature that recognises that education is, and must be, in its praxis, at the heart of all the SDGs. As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, we have a clear understanding of the wicked and complex crises regarding the health of life on our planet, and we cannot ignore the high levels of anxiety our young people are experiencing about their future. Continuing in the direction of unsustainable exploitation of people and nature is no longer an option if life is to have a flourishing future. The book illustrates how SDGs are supported in and by education and training, showcasing the conditions necessary to ensure SDGs are fore fronted in policy reform. It includes real-world examples of SDGs in education and training contexts, as well as novel critiques of the SDGs in regard to their privileging of anthropocentrism and neoliberalism. This book is beneficial to academics, researchers, post graduate and tertiary students from all fields relating to education and training. It is also of interest to policy developers from across disciplines and government agencies who are interested in how the SDGs relate to education.

Higher Education for Sustainable Development

Higher Education for Sustainable Development
Author: Kerry Shephard
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113754841X

This book asks how higher education should approach the task of educating for sustainability and then sets to answering it. It provides a guide for those who advocate for sustainability and for those who do not and makes a point of emphasising that all in higher education have the capacity and willingness to contribute in some way. The challenge is to find an approach that unifies the efforts of higher education teachers towards sustainability objectives, rather than dividing them. People at universities across the world were consulted and a grounded theory was devised. This encourages all university teachers to teach what they want to teach openly and honestly, about sustainability or not; but on the way to ensure that their students develop the critical skills that will enable them to fully understand what is being taught and what they are learning.