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Education for sustainable development at Manitoba colleges and universities

30 Apr 2013

The aim of ESD is to help people develop the attitudes, skills and knowledge to make informed decisions for the benefit of themselves and others, now and in the future, and to act upon these decisions (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization [UNESCO], n.d.). [...] Barriers and challenges to ESD, as identified by the presidents and survey respondents, include financial constraints, the lack of dedicated personnel, the push for academic freedom, the political and legal environment, the need for more mechanisms for knowledge sharing and networking and the lack of shared understanding of nomenclature around terms such as “Education for Sustainable Development” [...] The most recent such declaration is the Rio+20 Declaration of Higher Education Institutions, which calls upon the leaders of colleges and universities to commit to the development of sustainable practices at their institution on the occasion of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development of 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [...] As a result, Canada established the National Task Force on the Environment and Economy (NTFEE) whose recommendations lead to the establishment of the Roundtables on the Environment and Economy (NRTEE) at the national, provincial and local levels. [...] The UNECE Strategy and Implementation Framework for the Decade was adopted at this meeting, and the Council of Ministers of Education of Canada (CMEC), with the help of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, agreed to take on the task of reporting to the UN on the implementation of ESD, with Gerald Farthing serving as the CMEC lead on the project.
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Authors

Huppé, Gabriel A

Pages
88
Published in
Canada

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