Abstract
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Japan has been taught in classrooms from elementary to senior high school since the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) introduced it as a compulsory study area in the revised National Curriculum Standards of 2008 and 2009. This chapter examines three driving forces of ESD and highlights exemplary practices that might be useful to teachers at every grade level. The first discussion presents characteristics and evolution of ESD in Japan and around the world. Second, international efforts to promote ESD are summarized from the Lucerne Declaration on Geographical Education for Sustainable Development (2007) by the International Geographical Union Commission on Geographical Education (IGU-CGE). Third, the theme and practice of the Associated Schools Project, initiated by UNESCO in 1956, are extracted to highlight the evolution of ESD. This reexamination of ESD formation to current instruction presents a roadmap for advancing geography education within ESD in Japan.
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