A National Seminar

on Education for Sustainable Living: policies

and practices

Pankajini Pani P.G Student

Ravenshaw University, Cuttack

Meaning of Sustainable Living • It promotes the health and quality of life

present and future generation while living within the limits of its social and natural system. It reorganization the need for justice and for physical, emotional, intellectual, cultural and spiritual sustenance.

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• Education for sustainable living is practical holistic oriented to future needs and challenges. It focuses on the development of core life skillls needed for all ages, it allows every human being to acquire knowledge, skills, attitude and values necessary to shape a sustainable future.

• It requires teaching and learning methods that motivated and empower learners to change there behavior and take action for sustainable development.

Education for sustainable living

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•UNESCO (2005-2014) End over that education for sustainable living is one of the important part of education for sustainable development.UNEP (2010) Aims at providing knowledge, values and skills to enable individual and social groups to become actors of change towards more sustainable consumption behaviour.

PERL (The partnership for education and research about responsible living) It is ac International networks of exports researchers teachers and policy maker that are developing methods, materials and guidelines to implement education for sustainable living.

Various committees opinions towards Education for sustainable living

1. Government leadership South Africa: Focusing on education for sustainable living Argentina : coordination and procurementt. 2 Educational project china- Green school network Re-use of textbook in schools UNESCO youth Exchange Programme Keniya- Sustainable life skills course youth education network. 3.Community Involvement Japan – Team minus 6% project USA- Newyork city amplify 4.Cross-curricuar Theme Maxico- cross cutting the primaery 2009 , cross cutting secondary 2006 Maritious- Publlic schools 5.Online learning Latin America- the vertual schools for sustainable consumption

Policies and practices of education for sustainable living

Ensure educational institutions.Encourage research Strength connection Enhance cooperation Facilitate teaching and teacher training Reward for creative and critical innovational thinking foster integrationprovide opportunity for practical appication

How to Achieve Education for Sustainable Living

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