Edukacja dla zrównoważonego rozwoju w szkołach Wielkiej Brytanii

• Authors: Anna Batorczak

Title variants

EN

Education for sustainable development in the school’s education in Great Britain

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

Regardless of the international obligations there is a strong governmental policy in the United Kingdom supporting the education for sustainable development (ESD) at the national, regional and local level. In 2002, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority identified seven key concepts relating to ESD, which provide opportunities for pupils to learn and develop their understanding of ESD. The next important step was the strong commitment towards education for sustainability undertaken by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (now the Department for Education) which includes a plan that every school be a sustainable school by 2020. To help that commitment to be successful this department has established a National Framework which comprises three interlocking parts: a commitment to care; an integrated approach; a selection of eight sustainability “doorways”. The practice of the British schools is affected by the governmental approach. The clear evidence of that is most of the schools decide to put ESD in the heart of school’s life by participation in the programme of eco-schools. Most of British schools have registered for the programme (90%), 1579 got the highest award (“Green flag”), 4774 got the silver award and 5079 got the bronze award.

Keywords

EN

sustainable development; education for sustainable development; formal education

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Edukacyjnych
• Journal: Edukacja Biologiczna i Środowiskowa
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 67-74

Contributors

author

Anna Batorczak

• Uniwersytet Warszawski, Uniwersyteckie Centrum Badań nad Środowiskiem Przyrodniczym