Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable Development

Dear Colleague,

Sustainability always has been a great concern regarding the world’s economic growth given the finite nature of the planet’s natural resources that provide the input for modern economies and where the waste output accumulates. It has become clear over the last decades that the world needs to find a way to harmonize ecology with prosperity. The idea of Education for Sustainable Development has recently been at the forefront of the education field, since the world has so far failed to efficiently tackle the ‘high growth–high carbon’ trend and the use of natural resources. This failure of today’s economies to efficiently address sustainability could be regarded as a failure of the current educational system, which does not sufficiently provide people with innovative ways of thinking in order to become responsible citizens capable of critical thinking and able to seek new business opportunities that will achieve economic well-being while retaining the health of our planet. Nowadays, we accept that there is a lack in education pedagogies with regard to sustainability competences. As a result, a new pedagogy has to be introduced that will provide people with the key competences to address sustainability. The aim of this special issue of Sustainability on “Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable Development” in the section “Sustainable Education and Approaches” is to propose innovative pedagogical approaches in a promising way to address the problems in education with regard to sustainability.

Dr. Vasiliki Brinia
Dr. Dimitrios Halkiotis
Guest Editors

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