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Roberta Piazza; Giovanni Castiglione; Jose Roberto Guevara – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
University-based curriculum development often involves adding new content. This 'just add' approach has also been applied to integrating the UN SDGs into curricula, reducing them to a checklist rather than embracing their holistic and transformative aims. This is particularly concerning for SDG 4 and SDG 4.7, which require deep, cross-cutting…
Descriptors: Global Approach, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Sustainable Development
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Alexandra Goritz; Nina Kolleck – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Although education is acknowledged as an important tool to address climate change, only some countries refer to education within their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Using a mixed-methods approach, we explore the question of how countries frame education within their climate pledges. First, we examine NDCs with a discourse network…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices
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Dorothea Taube – Environmental Education Research, 2024
This article reports the results of an empirical investigation on teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning and the globalised world as a teaching subject. Following a qualitative reconstructive approach, the study investigated how teachers' beliefs and the way teachers address the complexity of sustainability issues relate to each other.…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development
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Acosta Castellanos, Pedro Mauricio; Queiruga-Dios, Araceli – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: In education concerning environmental issues, there are two predominant currents in the world, environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD). ESD is the formal commitment and therefore promoted by the United Nations, to ensure that countries achieve sustainable development. In contrast, EE was the first…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Engineering Education
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Warren G. Lavey – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: While sustainability experts point to interrelated social, economic and environmental goals, students may think about sustainability primarily as natural resources. To prepare students to tackle global challenges to well-being, this paper aims to show that educators need to assess and address students' shortcomings in considering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Sustainable Development, College Faculty
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Di Wilmot; Clare Brooks – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2024
A key responsibility of academic scholarship is to further develop the field under investigation and to critically evaluate how it is responding to challenges from both inside and outside of the field of enquiry. This article offers an overview of whether the scholarship published in geography education (GE) from the perspective of the Commission…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geographic Concepts, Conservation Education, Global Approach
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McKenzie, Marcia – Environmental Education Research, 2021
Despite recent intergovernmental commitments to advancing climate change education and communication (CCEC) internationally, there remains a lack of global data to enable tracking or target-setting on country progress. This article shares findings from an analysis of CCEC content in 377 submissions to the UNFCCC Secretariat. Submission types…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Global Approach, Sustainable Development
UNICEF, 2024
This is the Executive Summary for "The State of the World's Children 2024: The Future of Childhood in a Changing World," which looks ahead to the year 2050. It asks: How can we best secure a future where the rights of every child are realized -- a world where all children survive, thrive and meet their full potential? This report…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Rights, Futures (of Society), Demography
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Lingard, Bob – Environmental Education Research, 2021
This paper focuses on the complex, entangled relationships between research and policy and suggests this is a very important topic in the contemporary era of so-called, 'evidence-based' or 'research-based' policy in education. The paper argues that we can only ever have 'evidence-informed' and 'research-informed' policy because all policy is an…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Environmental Education, Correlation, Evidence Based Practice
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Jordan, Karen Elizabeth; Jónsson, Ólafur Páll; Guðjohnsen, Ragny Þóra; Aðalbjarnardóttir, Sigrún; Garðarsdóttir, Unnur Edda – Journal of Moral Education, 2023
An adequate response to the environmental and sustainability issues we now face cannot be limited to single perspectives, disciplines, or ways of knowing, and instead requires an interdisciplinary approach. Despite the connections between the fields of citizenship-, character- and sustainability education, they have thus far run parallel to each…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Values Education, Environmental Education, Sustainability
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Xose Picatoste; Diana Mihaela Tirca; Isabel Novo-Corti – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to analyse the positioning of young people in the face of the challenges posed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It focuses on the case of Erasmus+ students at a Spanish university and tries to evaluate the importance of each of the SDGs for them. Design/methodology/approach: Based on primary data obtained…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Sustainable Development, Developed Nations
Moira Herbst, Editor – UNICEF, 2024
What does the future hold for the world's children? In many ways, the future is now. Today's actions and decisions will determine the future children inherit. Unfortunately, today's children live in a world fraught with crises, poverty and discrimination. Where far too many are deprived of opportunities to meet their full potential. We can and…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Rights, Futures (of Society), Demography
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Sharon Stein – About Campus, 2024
Many students have expressed that they feel highly distressed by the state of the world they are inheriting. Extreme weather and wildfires around the globe, and increasingly sobering assessments about projected futures by researchers, activists, and global leaders have led to a growing consensus that the world is at a turning point when it comes…
Descriptors: Climate, College Students, Universities, Environmental Education
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Takayo Ogisu; Saori Hagai – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
This article aims to unpack global-local dynamics in education drawing on the cases of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and ASEAN Citizenship Education in Cambodia. By analysing recent education strategies and policies, curriculum framework, and textbooks, this paper unveils (a) to what extent have ESD and ASEAN citizenship been…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Local Issues, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education
Martha Bongiorno – Knowledge Quest, 2024
In the author's decade-long journey as a school library media specialist, they have witnessed an evolution in the role of education. In today's increasingly interconnected world, going beyond traditional literacy and nurturing informed, empathetic global citizens is becoming a fundamental aspect of our teaching and learning. The United Nations'…
Descriptors: Media Specialists, School Libraries, Global Approach, Library Role
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