Abstract
The achievement of sustainable development goals necessitates further theoretical reflection and revision of approaches to educational activities, considering the global challenges and threats of our time. In the context of sustainable development concept paradigm, the educational process is considered within the ecological model, which is demanded in training and retraining of specialists of different profiles, possessing knowledge, abilities, and skills, necessary for state policy implementation, management organization, making effective decisions in the sphere of society and nature interaction, eliminating contradictions and achieving the balance of economic, ecological and social interests. The authors, having analyzed the works of scientists, investigated the Voluntary Report of the Russian Federation on the implementation of the SDGs in Russia in 2019, and Rosstat data highlighted the need for environmental management. Current areas of educational programs in the field of sustainable development are proposed.
Highlights
The basis of the modern model of education for sustainable development is environmental education, the subject area of which is the study of the sphere of interaction between society and nature, including the contradictions that arise between them, ways to overcome them, ways to solve global, interregional, regional and local environmental problems, means of exercising environmental rights of citizens and public organizations, ensuring the environmental interests of various social strata of the population, organizational and financial and economic mechanisms of environmental management, other instruments for regulating public relations, including nature management, environmental protection, environmental and other types of safety
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [7] included the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are a continuation of the targets of all previous UN documents in this area, as well as the Millennium Development Goals identified as priority international development goals in the Declaration millennium, adopted by the UN member states in 2000 [8]
This recognizes the important role of education as a key driver of development and in achieving the other proposed SDGs
Summary
In the context of the growing civilizational crisis of our time, due to the emergence of new challenges and threats associated with the pandemic of coronavirus infection, potential and real risks of the emergence of new zoonotic and other diseases, climatic changes, the persistence of trends in the depletion of the resource base, reduction of biological resources, degradation of natural ecological systems, the onset of other the negative consequences of the anthropogenic impact of economic and other activities on the environment and humans, there is an increase in the attention of the world community and individual states to the search and optimization of mechanisms for implementing the concept of sustainable development as the only way (model) that can ensure the survival of humankind and the preservation of the biosphere.One of the key tools to achieve the targets of this concept is education in sustainable development, which is a prerequisite and a means of achieving the goals, objectives, indicators of this model developed by the international community in the 1970s [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Implementation of educational programs for sustainable development is a necessary condition and basis for formation in the process of educational activities of knowledge, abilities, and skills for strategic planning, organization and management of social structure based on the laws of nature development, harmonization of relations between the society and environment, as well as environmentally-oriented and socially responsible behavior of business and entrepreneurs in carrying out their economic activities. "Ecological component" of sustainable development education should include the model of environmental education (general and professional) and consider aspects of the influence of all education on solving environmental problems of civilization [6 P. These tasks should be highlighted among Russia's state education policy priorities within the system of lifelong education, training, and retraining of professional staff
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