Overview
- Presents an integrated scientific, pedagogical, social, and spiritual vision of ecological education for children
- Provides key information on harnessing COP21 guidelines and new sustainable development models to mobilize education for children
- Helps to map the educational changes needed in today’s school systems and teacher training by exploring case-based experiences from developed and developing countries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book addresses the changes in education practices, especially basic education, necessitated by the global challenges of climate change and sustainable development and in a context characterized by increasing poverty and inequality, migration and refugees.
Written by a range of international scholars, scientists and grassroots practitioners from Africa, Latin America, Asia (India, China, Malaysia) and Europe, the individual contributions focus on education policies and child development in various social contexts. Case-based experiences from both developed and developing countries provide inspiration and shed new light on the fundamental changes needed to adapt existing school systems and teacher training to face the challenges of the future. In this regard, the need to empower children themselves is emphasized.
All contributions are based on a Workshop hosted in November 2015 by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican entitled “Children and Sustainable Development: A Challenge for Education” and follow three other significant events on sustainable development in 2015, namely the publication of Laudato Si’, the Encyclical Letter from Pope Francis, the release of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and the COP21 Conference in Paris.
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Environment, Climate and Education
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How Could Education Evolve in a Diversity of Contexts?
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Children, Students and Teachers
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children and Sustainable Development
Book Subtitle: Ecological Education in a Globalized World
Editors: Antonio M. Battro, Pierre Léna, Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Joachim von Braun
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47130-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47129-7Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83662-1Published: 29 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47130-3Published: 08 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 433
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 69 illustrations in colour
Topics: Science Education, Sustainable Development, Development Aid, Religion and Society, Child Well-being, Climate Change Management and Policy