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Education for Sustainable Development

Challenges, Strategies and Practices in a Globalizing World

Taisha Abraham editor Anastasia Nikolopoulou editor Farid Mirbagheri editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd

Published:18th Dec '09

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Education for Sustainable Development is an emerging field that is being addressed from transdisciplinary and transinstitutional perspectives, forging links between academic and non-academic institutions. It explores sustainable development as a process that embraces environmental issues, poverty, health, security, democracy, gender and human rights. This collection provides multiple perspectives regarding the possibility of creating sustainable education practices that are integrated into and relevant to the needs and practices on a global scale. It also focuses on the failure of traditional education to address the problems of globalization.

The articles conceive sustainable development education as focusing on the holistic development of the body and mind, encompassing a wide range of issues. This idea is also central to the Gandhian tradition of life knowledge and Nai Talim (New Education).

The uniqueness of this compilation is in the multiple perspectives it provides, establishing workable links between local communities, governments and international organizations that would enable sustainable human development. It is a rich reference resource for those working in the fields of education, economics and development studies.

The contributors are eminent personalities in the field of education and administration…. This collection focuses on the creation of sustainable education practices that are integrated into and are relevant to the needs and practices of the world at large. It also dwells on the failure of traditional education in addressing the problems of globalization. Education planners, administrators, and research scholars will benefit from this book, an interesting read.

-- The Statesman

The uniqueness of this compilation is in the multiple perspectives it provides, establishing workable links between local communities, governments, and international organizations that would enable sustainable human development. For this very reason, it would be a rich reference resource for those working in the fields of education, globalization, Southeast Asian studies, humanities, cultural studies, social and political sciences, economics and development studies.

-- e-Social Sci

ISBN: 9788132102939

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 400g

264 pages