EDUCATION AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
EDUCATION AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: Although considered an entirely new approach, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) reiterates a number of roles and core values of education. Thus, aiming a quality education, which is indispensable, essential for sustainable development are moral education and humanistic education that must accompany the profesional specialized education. Environmental education, which in the early stages used to match perfectly across ESD, remained an important part of it. A central element, with a degree of novelty, is critical thinking, the transversal ability of reasoning, needed to understand the complexity of processes and phenomena and to quickly find viable solutions in global, continuously changing economic and social environment. Transdisciplinary areas of study should be taken into account.

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