Sunday, December 9, 2012

Education for ensuring sustainable development


Sustainable Development

Etymological meaning

Derived from Latin word “Sustenare” which means “to hold up” or “to support” and in modern context it is called “Maintain”

Acc to Brudtland Report

"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
“Sustainability is defined as a requirement of our generation to manage the resource base such that the average quality of life that we ensure ourselves can potentially be shared by all future generations”
                                                                                                                                       Geir B.   Asheim

“Sustainable development is defined as achieving lasting satisfaction of human needs and improvement of the quality of human life. It involves environmental, economic, social and cultural political considerations, which need to be addressed in a holistic and integrated way.”  
                                                                                                                                           Walter Filho

We also understand that quality of life is a system, too. It's good to be physically healthy, but what if you are poor and don't have access to education? It's good to have a secure income, but what if the air in your part of the world is unclean? And it's good to have freedom of religious expression, but what if you can't feed your family? So sustainable development implies :

1.    Maximization of Human well being : Sustainable Development can be defined in technical terms as a development path along which the maximization of human well-being for today’s generations

2.    Betterment of present as well as future : It suggests today’s generations does not lead to declines in future well being . Attaining this path requires eliminating those negative externalities that are responsible for resource depletion and environmental  degradation .it also requires securing those public goods that are essential for economic development.

3.    A System connected with space and time : Sustainable development require that we see the world as a system—a system that connects space; and a system that connects time. When think of the world as a system over time, you start to realize that the decisions our grandparents made about how to farm the land continue to affect agricultural practice today. When you think of a world as a system over space you grow to understand that air pollution from one particular country to another.

4.    Understanding of ourselves and our worlds: The concept of sustainable development is rooted in this sort of systems thinking. It helps us understand ourselves and our world.

Dimensions Of Sustainable Development


Human: Education, Employment, Human Capital, HRD, Human Development, Human Spirituality, lifestyle, equal opputunities
 Health : Mental Physical spiritual well being, balanced diet, safe drinking water, clean air, sanitation, environmental hygiene, primary health care and education
Financial: Basic Needs, Economic efficient, producing useful goods, labor productivity
Natural: Ecology, Natural Resources, Flourishing Environment
Social: Culture, Social equity, social change, social values, Social norms, Community development

Role Of Education in Sustainable Development

1.       Educated Elite
2.       Reorientation of Moral and Spiritual Values
3.       Environmental Education
4.       Changing Attitudes
5.       HRD Education
6.       Development of Right aspirations of life
7.       Improving Economic and financial conditions
8.       Sense of obligation of Citizenship
9.       Reduction in Unemployment
10.   Development of capacity of independent thinking
11.   Inculcation of corporate responsibility
12.   Socialization
13.   National Consciousness
14.   Equal Opportunities to all
15.   Population Education
16.   Ecological education

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