Mondays lecture was taken by Graham Allen who is the environmental manager of Swansea University. He spoke about 'education for sustainable development‘. Its role is to give a better quality of life and to meet the needs of today and for those to come. Environments, society and economy make up the three components of sustainable development as the end product shows the successful result.
The aims are as follows:
• To promote the students to think for themselves.
• Support the students when reflecting on issues so they create their own opinions.
• Encourage discovery that is relevant to life’s experiences.
A freedom of choice and the thought of the ‘correct actions’ are promoted, but it is the environment’s to teach and stimulate this that is relevant, and it lies in the social responsibility of schools and further education. In this environment delivering of objectives, decision making, sharing knowledge/learning, clear understanding of responsibilities and commitment has to be in place. From this there will be a lot of growth that will create employment, higher incomes, less poverty and improves the standard of living. Education is needed for prosperity as it enables you to get a good job which will lead you to a better life. The key point here is that education needs to change to include social, economic, cultural and environmental problems that everyone is going to face in the future. The children are the future and many problems will rise and solutions will have to be created. There is a lot to learn about the world and if you want to see a change make that change by becoming it.
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