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Preface
Designed by teachers, this publication serves as a guideline for
teachers to help them to understand the importance of the education
for sustainable development and to reignite their dreams and visions
for a better future. This publication is a part of the project and is
produced in order to provide ideas and methods in which education
for sustainable development can be integrated into the mandated
course curriculum in a simple and easy way.
Education for sustainable development (ESD) is an extensive area
and to accomplish a manageable project, the partner schools decided
to focus on only six goals of the United Nation's 17 global goals on
the new sustainable development agenda, published September 2015,
but all partner schools should feel free to work with any of the 17
global goals that are appropriate to their local or national issues.
The publication begins with a short history for sustainable
development and its definition and the necessity of a sustainable
society. It also discusses the importance of implementing education
for sustainable development into the school curriculum and the role
of schools in teaching sustainable development. It highlights some
key sustainability issues and provides ideas how to make education
for sustainability a part of everyday teaching without giving teachers
anymore work. It concludes with practical examples using both
formal and non-formal methods which have been experimented
across subjects in various levels of the schools‟ system in the eight
different countries in the project, “Active citizenship and
environmental awareness through formal and non-formal education”.
The project is funded by the Erasmus + and the eight partner schools
are from Romania, Poland, Portugal, England, Sweden, Lithuania,
Czech Republic and Italy. The age of the students participating in
the project varies between 9 years and 18 years.

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