What is ESD?
What is ESD?
ESD is the abbreviation for Educationfor Sustainable Development.
It refers to education that enables people to think and act in a sustainable way. It enables each individual to understand the impact of their own actions on the world.
On 1 June 2021, the decree "Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at public general and vocational schools and independent schools" will come into force in Lower Saxony. www.mk.niedersachsen.de/startseite/schule/schulerinnen_und_schuler_eltern/bildung_fur_nachhaltige_entwicklung_bne/bne_konzept/bildung-fuer-nachhaltige-entwicklung-bne-90480.html
ESD stands for education for sustainable development; development is sustainable when people around the world, now and in the future, can live in dignity and develop their needs and talents while respecting planetary boundaries. ESD empowers people to think and act in a sustainable way. ESD enables all people to understand the impact of their own actions on the world and to make responsible, sustainable decisions.
With the vision of shaping a peaceful and sustainable society, the United Nations adopted the global sustainability agenda in autumn 2015. 17 goals form the core of the agenda (SDG - Sustainable Development Goals) and summarise the areas in which sustainable development must be strengthened and anchored. These include sustainable consumption and production and gender equality. High-quality education is an important prerequisite for achieving these goals. ESD can be found in educational goal 4.
The basic competence of the concept is design competence. Design competence is to be understood as the ability to "apply knowledge about sustainable development and recognise problems of unsustainable development. This means being able to draw conclusions about ecological, economic and social developments in their interdependence from analyses of the present and studies of the future and being able to make and understand decisions based on this and implement them individually, collectively and politically in order to realise sustainable development processes."
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