Education for Sustainability: An Agenda for Action

ISBN-10: 0788139614
ISBN-13: 9780788139611
Series: Education for Sustainability
Pages: 86
Language: English
Published: 1996-06-01
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Authors: Colleen McNerney, Norah D. Davis

Description

All citizens must be educated about the economic and environmental realities of today's world. This report provides the impetus for that effort. Contents: a program for change; formal education (green schools: models and approaches, professional development, essential learnings); nonformal education (public awareness, sustainable development extension network, community visioning and assessment, workforce development, lifelong learning); cross-cutting themes (state and Federal policy changes, technology and information, multicultural perspectives, global perspectives). Illustrated.