strategy
Expanding programmes for continuing adult education on sustainable development
Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.Agenda 21 recommends that educational authorities, with appropriate assistance of non-governmental organizations, including women's and indigenous peoples' organizations, should promote all kinds of adult education programmes for continuing education in environment and development, basing activities around elementary/secondary schools and local problems. These authorities and industry should encourage business, industrial and agricultural schools to include such topics in their curricula. The corporate sector could include sustainable development in their education and training programmes. Programmes at a post-graduate level should include specific courses aiming at the further training of decision makers.
Broader:
Advancing continuing educationReorienting education towards sustainable developmentIntegrating demographic and sustainable development concerns in educationExpanding sustainable development education Narrower:
Including sustainable development issues in journalistic educationIncluding sustainable development in company education and training programmes Facilitated by:
Creating environmental education partnerships with industryReorienting higher education towards sustainable developmentSupporting efforts of non-formal educators in sustainable developmentGiving higher priority in budgets to sustainable development education and trainingIncreasing involvement of NGOs in designing and implementing education programmes for sustainable development Subjects:
Education → Further educationDevelopment → Sustainable development
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
