Locating Cross-Educational Approaches to Develop SDGs

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability journal launches a special issue on “Locating cross-educational approaches to develop sustainable development goals-SDGs”, which might be of a broad interest since it will deal with the application of cross-educational approaches (from a holistic perspective) to foster, develop, entail, the individual Sustainable Development Goals. The strategy of the United Nations postulates that Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) stresses that education systems at all levels, (i.e., primary, secondary and tertiary), be underpinned by and embedded with ethics of solidarity, equality, and mutual respect among people, countries, cultures and generations. The principles for ESD at all levels of education, according to the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the world leaders, urge politicians and policy makers to move society towards a sustainable future. In educational centers, all types of knowledge, competences, skills, and attitudes that foster sustainable development have become the center of attention because ESD is needed for future agents in the field of sustainable development. ESD aims to develop the 17 SDGs approved by the United Nations that highlight a global vision for sustainability. Education institutions play a fundamental role in empowering individual reflection on one’s own actions to foster current and future social, cultural, economic and environmental understanding and impacts, to activate participation both locally and globally and to reframe complex situations through a sustainable basis. Teaching, then, should define, test and assess efficient cross-educational approaches based on developing SDGs at all levels of formal, non-formal and informal education. Manuscripts, then, should focus in any SDG, in the application of either scientific, humanistic and artistic disciplines from Higher Education systems, to secondary and primary education centres.

Prof. Dr. Jordi Colomer Feliu
Prof. Dolors Cañabate
Guest Editors

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