Full Description
How do we address teaching for sustainability and global citizenship for social-ecological justice based on alternative paradigms?
This book addresses the implications of the environmental crisis on formal, non-formal and informal education from a human rights position. The author introduces a pedagogical approach called 'value-creating global citizenship education' from a study of selected Asian perspectives, building on the UN sustainable development goals, and beyond. The key focus is to develop resilience and hope through engaged relationships between learners and their environments. Examples are drawn from Indigenous knowledge, diverse ecological worldviews and practices including the Earth Charter, the Soka Amazon Institute, and the United Nations Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network that promotes Earth Jurisprudence. The book offers practical solutions for planetary citizenship for educators and policymakers, including teaching and curriculum guidelines that can be used to integrate intercultural perspectives and develop a global outlook.
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I: Terms, Concepts, Approaches
2. Integrating Intercultural Perspectives in Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship
3. Value-Creating Global Citizenship Education for Sustainability: A Pedagogical Approach
Part II: Earth-Centred Perspectives and Practices for Planetary Citizenship
4. Integrating Planetary Citizenship as a Cross-Curricular Theme and a Whole-Institution Orientation - Using a Value-Creating Approach to Learning
5. The Earth Charter, UN Harmony with Nature and Earth Jurisprudence - Lessons for UNESCO's Greening Education Approach
6. Soka Amazon Institute and the Earth Charter as Examples of Initiatives
Part III: A Value-Creating and Ethical Approach to Education for Peaceful, Just, and Sustainable Futures
7. Curriculum, Teaching, Learning, and Policy Implications
8. Moving Beyond the SDGs - Global Education to 2050
Conceptual Toolbox
Glossary
Select Annotated Bibliography for Further Reading
Index
