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Education for Sustainable Development Skills The types of skills pupils will need as adults. Skills fall into one or more of the three realms of SD- environmental, economic, and social. The ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing The ability to think about systems both natural and social sciences The ability to think in time - to forecast, to think ahead, and to plan. The ability to think critically about value issues The ability to separate number quantity quality and value The capacity to move from awareness to knowledge to action The ability to work cooperatively with other people The capacity to use these processes knowing inquiring acting judging, imagining, connecting, valuing, and choosing. The capacity to develop an aesthetic response to the environment Ref: www.esdtoolkit.org Demo Version, http://www.verydoc.com and http://www.verypdf.com