Definitions | Resource lists | Rationale and Policy | Integrating ESD&GC in ITET courses | Understanding SD & GC | What are other ITET institutions doing? | Teaching and learning strategies | Organisations offering course input | Presentations and activities | Further training opportunities | School case studies | Search

Concepts, skills, values and attitudes associated with ESD&GC

• Interdependence
  understanding how people, the environment and the economy are inextricably linked at all levels from local to global
• Citizenship and stewardship
  recognising the importance of taking individual responsibility and action to make the world a better place
• Needs and rights
  understanding our own basic needs and about human rights and the implications for the needs of future generations of actions taken today
• Diversity
  understanding, respecting and valuing both human diversity – cultural, social and economic – and biodiversity
• Sustainable change
  understanding that resources are finite and that this has implications for people’s lifestyles and for commerce and industry
• Quality of life
  acknowledging that global equity and justice are essential elements of sustainability and that basic needs must be met universally
• Uncertainty and precaution
  acknowledging that there are a range of possible approaches to sustainability and global citizenship and that situations are constantly changing, indicating a need for flexibility and lifelong learning
• Values and perceptions
  developing a critical evaluation of images of and information about the less and more economically developed parts of the world and an appreciation of the effect these have on people’s attitudes and values
• Conflict resolution
  understanding how conflicts are a barrier to development and a risk to us all and why there is a need for their resolution and the promotion of harmony.

“Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship” published by ACCAC for the Welsh Assembly Government (2002)

Skills

• Critical thinking
• Ability to argue effectively
• Ability to challenge injustice and inequalities
• Respect for people and things
• Co-operation and conflict
• Resolution

Values and attitudes

• Sense of identity and self esteem
• Empathy
• Commitment to social justice and equity
• Value and respect for diversity
• Concern for the environment and commitment to sustainable development
• Belief that people can make a difference