 Characteristics of ESD-Promoting Strategies in China’s Basic EducationWang Qiaoling
Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2011, vol. 5, issue 2, 215-223 Abstract: This article describes how education for sustainable development (ESD) has been integrated into education in China over the past decade through the efforts of the secretariat of a national steering committee working with UNESCO in conjunction with the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. ESD is now part of a new national education plan in China. The author found six principal methods that successfully promoted ESD in China: (a) Using a theoretical framework as the driving force; (b) Public educational policies made on the basis of education research; (c) Regional educational reform that meets the needs of local sustainable development; (d) Curriculum teaching methods constituted with features of ESD; (e) ESD characteristics integrated in the physical plant of the campus; and (f) Chinese–foreign exchange and cooperation in ESD at various levels. Keywords: Education for sustainable development (ESD); China; UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD); China’s National Commission for UNESCO; ESD National Steering Committee for UNESCO; ESD National Working Committee (ESD-NWC) (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:jousus:v:5:y:2011:i:2:p:215-223 DOI: 10.1177/097340821100500211 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of Education for Sustainable Development |
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