IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

Education for Sustainable Development

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Dr. Nehal Shingala

Abstract

In order to achieve environmental sustainability, education is an imperative tool. Without education, sustainable development cannot be achieved at any level. The practices within the growing economic trends and the consumption pattern of humans clearly show the lack of vision in having a sustainable future. Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Education helps you develop critical skills like decision-making, mental agility, problem-solving, and logical thinking. People face problems in their professional as well as personal lives. In such situations, their ability to make rational and informed decisions comes from how educated and self-aware. Education for sustainable development allows every human being to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values necessary to shape a sustainable future. Basic education is a key to a nation ability to develop and achieve sustainability targets. Education can improve agricultural productivity, enhance the status of women, reduce population growth rates, enhance environment protection, and generally raise the standard of living. But simply increasing basic literacy will not support a sustainable society. Institutional reform, curriculum reform and development of locale specific resource material incorporating Education for sustainable envelopment are priorities. Education for sustainable development requires including key sustainable development issues into teaching and learning like climate change, disaster risk reduction, poverty reduction, bio diversity and sustainable consumption

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