1. A
National Seminar
on
Education for Sustainable Living:
policies and practices
Pankajini Pani
P.G Student
Ravenshaw University, Cuttack

2. 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.

3. 3
Education for sustainable
living
• 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.

4. 4
Various committees opinions towards
Education for sustainable living
•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.

5. Policies and practices of
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

6. How to Achieve 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 integration
provide opportunity for practical appication

7. 7
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