Education for Sustainable Development Learning Objectives

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Intended Audience

“The document aims to support policy-makers, curriculum developers and educators in designing strategies, curricula and courses to promote learning for the SDGs.
Educators can use this text as a resource when developing training, textbooks, massive open online course (MOOCs) and exhibitions. It can help teachers or curriculum designers in formal educational institutions, trainers in professional capacity-building programmes, or NGO staff designing nonformal educational offers. Policy-makers may find it helpful to consider core ideas about learning objectives for the SDGs when developing education policies or strategies. For some, this guidance may provide an introduction to the SDGs, ESD, and competency oriented teaching and learning approaches in ESD. For others, the guide and recommended additional resources may deepen their understanding of these concepts. It can also be used to build on existing work in ESD and related areas such as global citizenship education, human rights education, environmental education and others.” (P.8)

UNESCO

2017

“The publication intends to guide readers on how to use education, and in particular ESD, in achieving the SDGs. It identifies learning objectives, suggests topics and learning activities for each SDG, and describes implementation on different levels from course design to national strategies.” (p.8)

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SDGs LINKAGES

The resource is focussed around SDG 4.7, “By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.” The resource also supports SDG 12.8 and SDG 13.3.

The resource provides a thorough exploration of education for sustainable development, by supporting learning that enables learners to understand and to act to achieve each of the 17 SDGs.

As the resource can be used to support training for key groups of staff, it supports SDG 4.4. In supporting the development of effective learning policy for the SDGs, it supports SDG 17.14.

The importance of education, lifelong and for all, cannot be overstated, and the resource helps support all 17 SDGs.

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SDG 4.4: Increase the Number of People with Relevant Skills for Financial Success
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number of young people and adults in skills-development activities and programmes drawing on collections, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
Increase in number of young people and adults in such programmes.
Number and proportion of staff who have received training in the last year, to better support their contribution to the SDGs.
Programs and processes in place to ensure the availability of a skilled workforce.
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SDG 4.7: Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Numbers of people in each type of programme drawing on collections from different demographic groups.
Increases in numbers of people in each type of programme from different demographic groups.
Proportion of people involved in such programmes in relation to overall audience size.
Evidence that learners have acquired knowledge and skills to promote sustainable development.
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SDG 12.8: Promote Universal Understanding of Sustainable Lifestyles
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development (including climate change education) are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment.
Extent to which global citizenship education and education for sustainable development (including climate change education) are mainstreamed in formal, informal and non-formal education programmes and activities drawing on and related to collections.
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SDG 13.3: Build Knowledge and Capacity to Meet Climate Change
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Plans in place to enhance positive contributions to addressing climate change through use of collections. Plans in place to ensure collections, collections institutions and broader society can adapt effectively to climate change.
Plans in place for effective education and awareness raising on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.
Plans in place to reduce negative contributions of collections-related functions, e.g. measuring greenhouse emissions with plans and targets in place to reduce them.
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SDG 17.14: Enhance Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of policies that incorporate sustainable development considerations, linking to SDGs and targets.
Incorporation of policy considerations from outside the collections sector into policies of collections-based institutions, to facilitate partnerships and effectiveness.
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