Abstract
China began to promote the project on Education for Environment Population and Sustainable Development (EPD) in 1998 and obtained significant gains. After that, in response to the global-scale implementation of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), China, on the basis of a local concept interpretation of education for sustainable development (ESD), as well as its specific national condition, continually explored education practice models for more than ten years. The main features of ESD innovative practice in China are as follows: exploring and forming an ESD development model based on the Chinese native experiences, creating an organization mechanism for the continuous improvement of ESD projects, and building a school curriculum system with the concept of ESD. However, ESD in China has many problems such as funding deficiency, lack of teacher training, and other support system issues.
Highlights
Since the 1970s, the world environment has been deteriorating, the environmental crisis deepening, and the related social, economic, and cultural issues making problems increasingly complex
This paper aims to summarize China’s experience with education for sustainable development (ESD), which is over a decade long, to contribute to international communication on this topic
ESD was written into the National Plan for Medium and Long-Term Education Reform and Development in 2010, which marked a major development for ESD in China
Summary
Since the 1970s, the world environment has been deteriorating, the environmental crisis deepening, and the related social, economic, and cultural issues making problems increasingly complex Against this global background, education for sustainable development (ESD) is raised with great expectations [1]. In 2002, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in Johannesburg, South Africa, countries reviewed global actions for the Sustainable Development Plan after Agenda 21 (1992) and fully affirmed the importance of ESD. They asked the United Nations (UN) Assembly to consider adopting the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), with 2005 as the beginning year. In 2005, UNESCO officially published the International Implementation Plan, clarifying the overall objective and specific goal of the DESD, and this plan became a programmatic document for guiding practice [4]
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