Online Certificate on Education for Sustainable Development

International Professional Development Programme

17 January - 20 June 2017

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About the Programme

This unique programme is designed to provide participants with the understanding, knowledge, and skills to integrate Education for Sustainable Development and Education for Global Citizenship into classrooms, schools, and curricula with depth and creativity. Unlike most programmes in sustainability, in these courses the Earth Charter (EC) is used as a central feature of this approach. The EC provides a broad, inclusive and powerful values-based orientation that can be infused within the missions and purposes of most educational programmes. The methodologies introduced are ones that can be applied to all learning across the curriculum and across grade levels.

Programme Objectives

Strengthen the knowledge, skills, and abilities of educators to implement Education for Sustainable Development and Education for Global Citizenship in their work, providing a space for dialogue and professional update on pedagogical processes of transformative learning that respond to the new guidance and educational needs in this area.

Specifically, this Certificate Programme seeks to

• Clarify concepts of sustainability, sustainability values and principles, sustainable lifestyles and responsible consumption; and global citizenship, as well as the synergies between them.
• Deepen and expand knowledge about new paradigms of education in the field of education for sustainability, and how it relates to education for global citizenship, sustainable lifestyles, and transformative education.
• Strengthen capacities and skills of the educators to integrate the values of sustainability in their areas of action, and develop educational programmes that promote a new awareness of our relationship with the environment and sustainable lifestyles.
• Explore methodological and transforming pedagogical tools that can be used in educational programmes.
• Motivate and inspire educators to contribute, through their areas of action, in building more coherent, harmonious, and sustainable societies.
• Stimulate the exchange of experiences between educators from different contexts and regions.

Some expected results

• Develop a greater understanding of sustainable development, and its application in education.
• Be familiar with new paradigms of education within the framework of Education for Sustainable Development, and related themes.
• Deepen knowledge and pedagogical tools to incorporate values-based education for sustainable development in educational programmes and processes.
• Internalize the ethical framework for sustainable development that is articulated in the Earth Charter, as a set of fundamental principles and values for building a more just, sustainable, and peaceful society.
• Strengthen the abilities and skills to work with values and principles of sustainability and the Earth Charter in educational programmes.

To register for the course and for more information, please visit Earth Charter Initiative.