Environmental Education to Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges and Issues

Challenges of integration of education for sustainable development in Handcrafts higher education

The purpose of present study was to analyze the current status of Handcrafts’ education in Iran’s Art universities in the context of sustainable development discourse. This idea was shaped due to the potential and actual capacity of handicrafts’ industries encountered an education model for sustainable development. The main question was how is the current status of bachelor of Handcraft educati...

Environmental Education and Sustainable Development: A Further Appraisal

According to UNESCO's recent documents, sustainable development is the “ultimate goal of the Man-environment relationship”; thus, the whole educational process should be “reshaped for sustainable development.” In view of the extreme importance of their educational impact, such statements need to be discussed. To which conception of environment, of education and of sustainable development does t...

Sustainable, Development, Education and Globalization

Good Practices in Education for Sustainable Development: Teacher Education Institutions

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The Need for Interdisciplinary Research and Education for Sustainable Human Development to Deal with Global Challenges

Major issues in society developing alternate sources of energy and a sustainable environment, improving health, and minimizing the effects of climate change require a collective effort by different disciplines working in interdisciplinary groups. Indeed, the boundaries between the different disciplines are becoming increasingly blurred. Society’s responses to major social challenges must be inf...