29 July 2002
Dear Colleagues:
I am pleased to announce the publication of version 2 of the
Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit.. The URL is
http://www.esdtoolkit.org. Version 2 has several new components
including a section on managing change, links to WWW resources related
to sustainability, and seven new exercises.
The ESD Toolkit is an easy-to-use manual for beginning the process of
combining education and sustainability. The ESD Toolkit now has eight
major components:
(1) An introduction to sustainability.
(2) A description of the major thrusts and components of education for
sustainable development and a process to begin reorienting formal
education to address sustainability.
(3) A discussion of 12 major issues that have slowed the progress of
ESD.
(4) A case study of the Toronto Board of Education's community
consultation and subsequent curriculum revision that indirectly
addressed ESD as a result of the citizens' vision and desires.
(5) A description of management techniques for initiating change in
schools.
(6) A brief description of public participation methods for including
the citizenry in community decisions regarding sustainability and ESD.
(7) Exercises to help schools and communities to understand
sustainability, create sustainability goals, reorient the curriculum to
address sustainability, and initiate change within an educational
system.
(8) Links to other Web sites on sustainability, education for
sustainability, historic United Nations Documents, and communities that
have developed sustainability plans
The ESD Toolkit will help schools and communities develop a
process to create locally relevant and culturally appropriate
education. The Toolkit is based on the idea that communities and
educational systems need to dovetail their sustainability efforts.
Ideally, local educational systems can reorient existing curriculums to
reinforce local sustainability goals.
I sincerely hope Version 2 the ESD Toolkit helps educators,
schools, institutions, or communities, take the first steps toward
creating education for sustainable development programs.
I would appreciate it if you would pass this announcement on to
your friends and colleagues who are interested in sustainability.
Sincerely,
Rosalyn McKeown
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Dr. Rosalyn McKeown, Director
Center for Geography and Environmental Education
311 Conference Center Bldg.
University of Tennessee
Knoxville TN 37996-4134
telephone (865) 974-1880
fax (865) 974-1838
email [log in to unmask]
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