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What is Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)?

Education for Sustainable Development is an essential element of what we should be teaching our children and is a theme that runs right through the English National curriculum. The Government Panel for Sustainable Development Education developed the following definition in 1999.

Education for sustainable development enables people to develop the knowledge, values and skills to participate in decisions about the way we do things individually and collectively, both locally and globally that will improve the quality of life now without damaging the planet for the future.

The concept of ESD includes:

Developing an understanding of the need to maintain and improve the quality of life now without damaging the planet for future generations; and

Developing essential life skills crucial for children and young people to understand and appreciate the effect of their actions on their own lives, the lives of others, and on the environment.

Education for sustainable development can be defined in many ways but it can be useful to consider it in terms of seven interrelated concepts that were developed by the Government Panel for Sustainable Development Education.

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