UNESCO Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future

United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

by Max A.E. Rossberg 

UNESCO has a great online training seminar for “teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future“. It starts with the basic concepts and then has modules for each chapter which are downloadable:

Curriculum Rationale

• Module 1 | Exploring global realities
• Module 2 | Understanding sustainable development
• Module 3 | A futures perspective in the curriculum
• Module 4 | Reorienting education for a sustainable future
• Module 5 | Accepting the challenge

Sustainable Development Across the Curriculum

• Module 6 | Sustainable futures across the curriculum
• Module 7 | Citizenship education
• Module 8 | Health education
• Module 9 | Consumer education

Contemporary Issues

• Module 10 | Culture & religion for a sustainable future
• Module 11 | Indigenous knowledge & sustainability
• Module 12 | Women & sustainable development
• Module 13 | Population & development
• Module 14 | Understanding world hunger
• Module 15 | Sustainable agriculture
• Module 16 | Sustainable tourism
• Module 17 | Sustainable communities
• Module 18 | Globalisation
• Module 19 | Climate change

Teaching and Learning Strategies

• Module 20 | Experiential learning
• Module 21 | Storytelling
• Module 22 | Values education
• Module 23 | Enquiry learning
• Module 24 | Appropriate assessment
• Module 25 | Future Problem Solving
• Module 26 | Learning outside the classroom
• Module 27 | Community Problem Solving