A new Guide for Using the Earth Charter in Education...
A Guide for Using the Earth Charter in Education was launched during the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development held in Bonn (31 March – 2 April).
After years of dialogue, drafting and the inputs of a group of individuals involved in education, a Guide for using the Earth Charter in Education is finally ready for use and dissemination. Earth Charter International welcomes comments and suggestions for improving it and plans to release a second version in 2010.
This Guide is intended for all educators who are concerned to develop educational systems and programs that prepare young people and adults to live sustainably and become responsible local and global citizens in the 21st century.
It provides basic information on how to use the Earth Charter in educational settings. It will be especially helpful to educators who are working in the fields of environmental education, education for sustainable development, human rights education, human ecology education, peace education, humane education, social education and allied areas.
The second section of this guide briefly outlines the history of education for sustainable ways of living and the significance of the Earth Charter as a teaching and learning resource. The third section discusses the significance of ethics and explains the important place of ethical values in the Earth Charter. The fourth section identifies major themes that the Earth Charter can help address in diverse educational settings. The fifth section lists a number of the educational goals that teachers can consider when using the Earth Charter. The sixth section presents guidelines for developing Earth Charter educational materials and programmes. Click here to see the Guide.
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3 Responses to "A new Guide for Using the Earth Charter in Education... "
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said this on 29 Apr 2009 4:38:19 AM CDT
How can i obtain the Guide for using the Earth Charter in Education.I`m an Earth Charter Member based in Zambia and working in Educational Ngo
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said this on 29 Apr 2009 4:43:27 AM CDT
Please help me to get the Guide on how to use the Earth Charter in education
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said this on 16 May 2009 11:54:29 PM CDT
Social and economic justice are vital subjects for a happier and better world, but to reach for them requires careful preparation of those teachers and students who will subsequently apply these principles to creating the future. Before it reaches a political and governmental level, the spade-work should be done, in order to properly and more perfectly understand the implication. It is this matter about which I am commenting.
Today our knowledge of the science of macroeconomics is badly lacking substance and until it is better understood and taught, the kind of social justice being discussed in these pages becomes unrealistic in terms of general economic policy decisions. Most goverments and their economics advisors have only a partial understanding of the issues involved because what they learnt about this subject was so poorly expressed in the past by institutions who have political and selfish interests and who therefore present limited and biased information. What is first needed is some better macroeconomic theory, of an exact and engineering kind that will allow the designers of the developing communities to see exactly where their efforts should be placed. Such a macroeconomic theory has now become available. This writer has developed an exact method for modelling macroeconomics which is sufficiently general to find use in any growing society. It is also sufficiently comprehensive that it covers all of the relevant aspects, a claim that appears to be wild on first reading, but in fact is substantiated once the methodology of this original approach is taken in. Should any of your organizers or teachers be interested in finding out more abouit how vital information is expressed, please write to me at chesterdh@hotmail.com . I am doing independent and private research that is not sponcered by any organization, and it is consequently unbiased in its views. |
