There is a new discourse emerging within the education and learning for sustainability community, which argues that citizens need to have certain key competencies that allow them to engage constructively and responsibly with an increasingly complex and unsustainable world. As one recent authorative UNESCO report suggests; ”competencies describe the specific attributes individuals need for action and self-organization in various complex… Read more →
Author: Steve Martin
Citizens need key competencies for a sustainable world
There is a new discourse emerging within the education and learning for sustainability community, which argues that citizens need to have certain key competencies that allow them to engage constructively and responsibly with an increasingly complex and unsustainable world. As one recent authorative UNESCO report suggests, ”competencies describe the specific attributes individuals need for action and self-organization in various complex contexts and… Read more →
Environment Audit Committee – UK Government Approach to SDG’s
ENVIRONMENT AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT ON THE UK Government’s Approach to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). The report (published 26th April 2017) is very critical of the UK Government’s approach. The summary states: By adopting Agenda 2030 the Government has committed itself to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals – or the Global Goals – in the UK as well as overseas.… Read more →
Critical thinking – changing how you look
Changing how you look at things changes how you see them! Put another way it is crucial that we retain and facilitate the ability to think outside the box and the frame……we need to challenge the way we think about the way we frame questions and possibilities so that we avoid the risks of diminishing our ability to understand and… Read more →