Education for sustainable development (ESD) promotes and teaches the knowledge, skills, understanding and actions that are needed to create a sustainable world for us to live in.
It includes:
- Environmental protection and conservation
- Respect and concern for other people in the local community and across the world.
- Economic sustainability
- Equality between people – social justice
How to teach it?
Incorporate it into everyday life and demonstrate how it is beneficial for long term of the planet and ourselves. Treat it as a lifestyle and not a ‘subject’. Explain and research what effects are happening as a result of plastic waste (how it is affecting our oceans), over consumerism, food wastage, excessive travel, inequality and the throw away, convenience society we have become. Create a mindset.
Teach skill and involve in activities such as:
- Sewing
- Mending and re-purposing clothes.
- Cooking from scratch
- Up cycling
- Cleaning up local areas (litter picks)
- Recycling
- Planting and growing plants and food
- Volunteering for projects to help those less fortunate- (refugees etc)
- Teach sustainable choices when buying products (Bamboo toothbrushes, not single use)
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| using household waste to make resources |
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| Learning how to sew on a button |
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| Taking part in a local litter pick |
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