Whole Education

The UNESCO Global Report on Education for Sustainable Development

At the mid-way point of the UN decade of Education for Sustainable Development, this report highlights the value of education for sustainable development in a whole education, suggesting it offers the following outcomes:

• Critical reflective thinking

• Understanding complexity/systemic thinking

• Futures thinking

• Planning and managing change

• Understanding inter-relationships across disciplines

• Applying learning in a variety of life-wide contexts

• Decision-making, including in uncertain situations

• Dealing with crises and risks

• Acting with responsibility locally and globally

• Ability to identify and clarify values

• Acting with respect for others

• Identifying stakeholders and their interests

• Participating in democratic decision-making

• Negotiating and consensus building

In order to maximise the benefits of education for sustainable development in the future the report recommends a whole education approach, focusing on transformative learning over transmissive learning, with stronger links between school disciplines and between schools and the wider community.

A copy of the report can be accessed here.

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