The series of books on ESD( including seven books)

I    Introduction to Education for Sustainable Development

II   Education for Sustainable Development in Practice

III  Case Studies on Education for Sustainable Development

IV  Evaluation of Education for Sustainable Development

V   Green University and Education for Sustainable Development

VI  Research Projects on Education for Sustainable Development and the International Trends

VII  Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit

 

Editor-in-Chief：Wang Min

Main authors: Wang Min, Wei Dongying, Wang Li, Du Guangci, Yuan Jin etc.

 

I Introduction to Education for Sustainable Development 

Contents

Chapter 1   Background of Education for Sustainable Development

 1.1   Sustainable Development

          Concept of Sustainable Development

          Sustainable Development in China

          Concept of Scientific Development

               Education and Sustainable Development

      1.2   Ethical Basis of Sustainable Development

               Ecological Ethics (Ecoethics)

               Inter-generational Ethics

               Ethics of Inner-generation Equity

1.3   Educations Related to Sustainable Education

               Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development

               Global Education

               World Studies

               Development Education

      1.4   Emergence of Education for Sustainable Development

 

Chapter 2   Connotation of Education for Sustainable Development

      2.1   Concept of Education for Sustainable Development

               Understandings and Interpretations in Some Countries around the World

               Increasing Development of ESD in China

               Concept of Education for Sustainable Development

      2.2   Features of Education for Sustainable Development

      2.3   Three Dimensions of Education for Sustainable Development

               Time Dimension

               Space Dimension

               Implementers Dimension

Brief Summary

      2.4    Principles of Education for Sustainable Development

 

Chapter 3   Framework Analysis on Education for Sustainable Development

      3.1   Layer of Targets of ESD: Education FOR Sustainable Development

               The Aims of ESD

               The Objectives of ESD

      3.2   Layer of Content of ESD: Education ABOUT Sustainable Development

               All Aspects of Sustainable Development

               Key themes of ESD in UK

               Seven key themes of ESD in China

      3.3   Layer of Practice of ESD: Facilitating Sustainable Development

               Teaching Strategies

               Administration Strategies

               Evaluation Strategies

 

Chapter 4   Incorporation of Education for Sustainable Development with Curriculum

      4.1   Ways of ESD Integrating into Compulsory Education Curriculum

               Trans-disciplinary Integration

               Multi-disciplinary Integration

      4.2   ESD and Curriculum Reforms

               Reconstruction of Curriculum Paradigm

               Innovation of Curriculum Notions

               Development of Curriculum System

      4.3   Current Situation of ESD in School Curriculums

               Implementing Ways of ESD in School Curriculum

Penetration of ESD into Compulsory Education Curriculum

Penetration of ESD into Ordinary High School Curriculum

               Existing Problems of ESD in Present School Curriculum

      4.4   Integration of ESD with Curriculum

               Significance of Integrating

               Relationship between Integrated Disciplines and ESD

 

Chapter 5  Teaching and Learning of Education for Sustainable Development and Evaluation

      5.1   ESD Teaching and Learning Ways

               Learning by Participation

               Learning by Cooperation

               Learning by Inquiry

               Teaching and Learning by Scenes

      5.2   ESD Instruction Contents

                Methods to Determine the Contents

                Principle to Determine the Contents

                Case Study

      5.3   Case Study of ESD: Enquiring into Luhr in Germany

                Objective of Teaching and Learning

                Analysis on Teaching Materials

                Suggestion for Teaching and Learning

      5.4   Evaluation of ESD

                Evaluation Pattern

                Evaluation on School

                Evaluation on Students

                Evaluation of “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”

 

Chapter 6   Education for Sustainable Development in Community

      6.1   Introduction of Community Education

               Emergence of Community Education

               Roles of Community Education

      6.2   Relationship between ESD in Community with Educations in Family and School

      6.3   Case Study:  Revelation of a Survey

      6.4   Case Study:  ESD Based on National Parks in UK

 

Chapter 7   Teacher Training of Education for Sustainable Development

      7.1   Necessities of ESD Teacher Training

           Challenges to Teachers

           Change of Teachers’ role

      7.2   Current Situation of ESD Teacher Training in China

      7.3   Training for Pre-service Teachers

               The Current Situation of Training

               Case Study1: BELL’s Green demonstration Courses at Beijing Normal University in China

               Case Study2: Master of Science in Sustainable Development Degree Programme at the Dublin Institute of Technology

      7.4   Training for in-service Teachers

               Training Based on individual School

               Operational Administration Methods of Teacher Training

References

Appendix

 

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