Culture, Community and Education for Sustainable Development

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Culture, Community and Education for Sustainable
Development

• Chair Clive Belgeonne, Development Education
  Project
• Presenters Jim Baker, Connections for
  Development
• Yvonne Gilligan, Groundwork UK
• UK Launch Conferencefor theUN Decade of
  Education for Sustainable DevelopmentTuesday 13
  December 2005

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Questions that framed the seminar

• What are the levels of understanding of ESD
  within particular local contexts?
• How can communities across the UK, with different
  priorities and aspirations, connect with complex
  issues that threaten planetary sustainability?
• How can we build greater inclusivity and
  participation, and link to issues of community
  cohesion?
• How we can all develop a sense of our roles and
  responsibilities as global citizens, and move
  beyond awareness-raising to informed community
  action?

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Education influences and
reflects the values of society and the kind of
society we want to be National Curriculum
values and purposes.
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The Egan Review - Skills for Sustainable
Communities, ODPM, April 2004

• Sustainable communities meet the diverse needs
  of existing and future residents, contribute to a
  high quality of life and provide opportunity and
  choice. They achieve this in ways that make
  effective use of natural resources, enhance the
  environment, promote social cohesion and
  inclusion, and strengthen economic prosperity.

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The challenge?

• "Each nation, cultural group, and individual must
  learn the skills of recognizing their own values
  and assessing these values in the context of
  sustainability."
• Draft UN implementation scheme for the Decade of
  ESD

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How can people engage with sustainable
development through the learning process?

• How, over the next 10 years, can we best "use"
  the UN Decade?
• What needs to be taken forward by the education
  sector, be it at national or local level, to
  address the issues raised?
• How can the UK best contribute to the
  international success of the Decade?