What's ESD
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What's ESD?
| About ESD ESD includes learning and/or activities that aim to relate both social issues and our lives, and to facilitate the new values and behaviour in us for achieving a sustainable world. Through knowing unsustainable social issues, facing them, seeking the solutions and taking action – this series of learning experiences raise the awareness and leads an action in a citizen. The connectedness of nature and life, the coexistence of human-nature, and the cultural diversity are also often emphasized in the learning and activities of ESD. |
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Feature of ESD
| 1.ESD aims not only to gain the knowledge but also to raise the learner’s ability to reflect their values and common senses and to take the proactive participation. |  |
2.ESD often takes the experience based and solving approach in the real life and real local community settings to seek the solution of unsustainable social issues. |
| 3.Mutual learning is important in ESD. Schools, business entities, governments, NGOs, public institutes, farmers, fishermen, adults and children – all can be both ESD educators and learners. | 4.The sustainability issues, such as environment, poverty, human rights, peace and development, are complicated so that comprehensive approach is regarded as important in ESD. |
