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  •  Citizenship education
  •  Science
Country: Eritrea, Philippines, El Salvador, South Africa
Title: Learning to Be Resilient Global Citizens for a Sustainable World. Background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2013/4 Teaching and learning: Achieving quality for all.
Author: Allison Anderson
Summary: This article examines educational content and teaching and learning approaches that cultivate global citizens with a shared concern for sustainable development. Given the global, interconnected challenges of sustainable development, climate change, and peaceful and inclusive society building, it is essential to prioritize knowledge and skills that are linked to 21st century livelihoods, sustainable development, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. These skills include critical thinking, problem solving, and relevant content knowledge like environmental and climate change education, disaster risk reduction and preparedness, sustainable consumption and lifestyles, and green technical and vocational education and training. A review of the evidence and case studies reveals that educational interventions are most successful when they focus on local, tangible, and actionable aspects of environmental stewardship, climate change and sustainable development, especially those that can be addressed by individual behaviour. The study highlights that teacher education is essential for providing quality environmental and climate change education. Like with learners, linking climate change and environmental education to relevant and tangible issues improves teachers’ own understating of the foundational concepts as well as their value of the subject. Moreover, relatively short and simple curricular modules seem to be impactful in teacher training efforts about climate change education.
Reference Website: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002259/225940e.pdf
Publishing House: UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report
Year of Publication: 2013
Upload date: 2/2/2015

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