3. The future of learning for the future: beyond the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

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3. The future of learning for the future: beyond the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

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Pages:: 81–90

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-802-5_3

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When representatives of United Nations Member States met in mid-2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the ‘Rio+20 conference’, they included the following commitment into the outcome document of the conference: ‘We resolve to promote education for sustainable development and to integrate sustainable development more actively into education beyond the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development’ (UN 2012). The conference thus provided a strong mandate for building on and, indeed, expanding the work that has been undertaken within the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005–2014). In the follow-up to Rio+20, UNESCO has been coordinating a process towards a future global ESD framework to follow on from the DESD. The present chapter will, first, situate future ESD work in the wider global policy context, as it is provided by recent global discussions, mostly at the level of the UN, around the future agenda after 2015; and, second, provide an overview of the future ESD framework, the Global Action Programme on ESD. Responding to the overall theme of the present book, the chapter is based on the assumption that one important kind of transformative leadership for ESD is provided by global policy frameworks or universally adopted strategic documents. These frameworks, if they work well, generate and guide the desired activities – in the present case: mobilizing education and learning for a better future. As to the perspective from which this chapter is written, it is, of course, given the institutional affiliation of the author, that of a UNESCO official.

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Intergenerational learning and transformative leadership for sustainable futures

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Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 15 Oct 2014

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