Community Engagement and Education for Sustainable Development: Promising Cases

Park, Jonghwi, Yamaguchi, Shinobu Yume and Sung, Jaewook, "Community Engagement and Education for Sustainable Development: Promising Cases" in Evolution of the United Nations System: An East Asian Perspective ed. The Japan Association for United Nations Studies (JAUNS) (London: Routledge, 2023), 178-190.

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  • Author Park, Jonghwi
    Yamaguchi, Shinobu Yume
    Sung, Jaewook
    Book Editor The Japan Association for United Nations Studies (JAUNS)
    Chapter Title Community Engagement and Education for Sustainable Development: Promising Cases
    Book Title Evolution of the United Nations System: An East Asian Perspective
    Publication Date 2023-07-31
    Place of Publication London
    Publisher Routledge
    Start page 178
    End page 190
    Language eng
    Abstract This paper proposes an urgent transformation of education for sustainable development (ESD) to position education as a main driver for achieving a sustainable society. Within the framework of the Regional Centres for Expertise on ESD (RCE) which host over 180 members across the globe, this paper illustrates eight promising cases from RCE members from China, Finland, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Uganda, in engaging communities, finding local solutions to global sustainable development issues and leading action-oriented ESD learning. The cases focus on three pertaining aspects, 1) responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with multi-stakeholder ESD models, 2) contextualizing climate actions to the local urgency, and 3) safeguarding local biodiversity through ESD. The synthesis of the eight cases illustrates five common and noticeable trends in successful education and lifelong learning for sustainability: Action-oriented learning, active community engagement, place-based learning, inclusive remote learning, and timely responses to local needs of global agenda.
    UNBIS Thesaurus EDUCATION
    AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND EDUCATION
    COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
    Keyword Action-oriented learning
    Education for sustainable development
    Lifelong learning
    Place-based learning
    Remote learning
    Copyright Holder The Authors
    Copyright Year 2023
    Copyright type All rights reserved
    ISBN 9781003369615
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