A Commentary on Education and Sustainable Development Goals

Stephen Sterling
Additional contact information
Stephen Sterling: Stephen Sterling, Professor of Sustainability Education, Centre for Sustainable Futures, Plymouth University, The United Kingdom. E-mail: stephen.sterling@plymouth.ac.uk

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2016, vol. 10, issue 2, 208-213

Abstract: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are viewed in the context of Johan Rockström’s work on planetary boundaries at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. This work sets a double challenge to educational policy and practice: to embrace and help achieve the Goals, but also to work towards a deeper change in consciousness which can reconcile people and planet. 1 The role of education is more profound and comprehensive than is recognized in the text of the SDGs as regards its potential to address their implementation. Education requires a re-invention, and re-purposing so that it can assume the responsibility these challenges require, and develop the agency that is needed for transformative progress to be made.

Keywords: Education for sustainable development; sustainable development goals; means of implementation; sustainability transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0973408216661886 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:jousus:v:10:y:2016:i:2:p:208-213

DOI: 10.1177/0973408216661886

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Education for Sustainable Development
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().