Abstract

This paper is a part of the preparations work made by Chinese National Working Committee for UNESCO on ESD to welcome and participate in the world ESD Conference (2021) to be held in Berlin. The purpose of this study is to review China's experience in implementing GAPESD, and to put forward suggestions to the international community to continue to promote ESD in the next 10 years. In the process of summing up the experience of GAP implementation in the first five years, the expert group has conducted an investigation in more than 300 ESD experimental school principals in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Inner Mongolia and other regions. In writing the relevant suggestions, we have listened to the opinions of more than 10 experts from universities and research departments. Since 2015, the expert team of Chinese National Working Committee for UNESCO on ESD and a large number of principals, teachers, education experts, social personages and administrative leaders at all levels all over the country have completed 10 main tasks of theoretical research and practical exploration for the implementation of UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD. According to the guidance of Chinese government on promoting sustainable development and ecological civilization construction, and the important spirit of the document Education for Sustainable Development: Towards achieving the SDGs (2020-2030) issued by UNESCO, the expert team summarized achievements of promoting ESD in China in the past five years and made suggestions for international community to scale up ESD in the next 10 years.

Highlights

  • During the last five years (2015-2019), China has made remarkable progress in the field of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and Chinese National Working Committee for UNESCO on ESD (CNWCESD), as the official designated lead agency for UNESCO to promote ESD, has played a major role, alone with a lot of principals, teachers, educational experts, social personages and administrative leaders at all levels throughout the country, in achieving the progress

  • (1) Studying and disseminating the ESD-related documents delivered by United Nations, UNESCO and the Chinese government

  • Over the past five years, CNWCESD and regional partners have continued to improve the national-local-school three-levels ESD training system: setting up three national workshops and two international forums, with a focus on disseminating the spirit of international and domestic important documents and theoretical research results, and editing Asia-Pacific Educator Training Manual on ESD [24] as well as a collection of more than 200 recent practice cases; about 20 district training seminars focusing on exchanging more cases and deploying local work; more than 300 school training seminars have been held, focusing on the study and determination of specific plans for curriculum, teaching and learning innovation in the new stage

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Introduction

During the last five years (2015-2019), China has made remarkable progress in the field of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and Chinese National Working Committee for UNESCO on ESD (CNWCESD), as the official designated lead agency for UNESCO to promote ESD, has played a major role, alone with a lot of principals, teachers, educational experts, social personages and administrative leaders at all levels throughout the country, in achieving the progress. They carry out various theoretical research and practical exploration for the implementation of UNESCO Global Action Programme on ESD (GAP) [1]. This article is intended to give a profile of China's ESD progress in the past five years and suggestions for advancing ESD in the 10 years

Ten Main Initiatives to Promote ESD in China
Suggestions for Promoting ESD in the Next 10 Years
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