Sustainability education in India: A discourse in education development
Since the 1970s various initiatives have been introduced to bring sustainability education into the Indian curricula. However, most of these initiatives have been focused on environmental sustainability. In primary and secondary education sustainability has been incorporated into a variety of subjec...
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| author | Joseph, Shaji Patil, Kanchan Kulkani, Apoorva John, Michele |
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| description | Since the 1970s various initiatives have been introduced to bring sustainability education into the Indian curricula. However, most of these initiatives have been focused on environmental sustainability. In primary and secondary education sustainability has been incorporated into a variety of subjects. The higher education sector in India has traditionally focused on education for employment and has only recently started to include a sustainability focus. Universities initiated education for sustainability only after the introduction of the SDGs in 2015. This chapter explores the sustainability initiatives of both early school education and higher education in India. It also explores the critical interrelationship between sustainability education and values education. The data used are collected mostly from secondary data, use cases, government, NGO and university websites and research papers. The chapter has also documented some best practice that can be used as vantage points to implement education for sustainable development in India. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-971602025-03-28T01:29:36Z Sustainability education in India: A discourse in education development Joseph, Shaji Patil, Kanchan Kulkani, Apoorva John, Michele John, Michele Since the 1970s various initiatives have been introduced to bring sustainability education into the Indian curricula. However, most of these initiatives have been focused on environmental sustainability. In primary and secondary education sustainability has been incorporated into a variety of subjects. The higher education sector in India has traditionally focused on education for employment and has only recently started to include a sustainability focus. Universities initiated education for sustainability only after the introduction of the SDGs in 2015. This chapter explores the sustainability initiatives of both early school education and higher education in India. It also explores the critical interrelationship between sustainability education and values education. The data used are collected mostly from secondary data, use cases, government, NGO and university websites and research papers. The chapter has also documented some best practice that can be used as vantage points to implement education for sustainable development in India. 2025 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97160 10.4324/9781003171577-68 English Taylor and Francis fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Joseph, Shaji Patil, Kanchan Kulkani, Apoorva John, Michele Sustainability education in India: A discourse in education development |
| title | Sustainability education in India:
A discourse in education development |
| title_full | Sustainability education in India:
A discourse in education development |
| title_fullStr | Sustainability education in India:
A discourse in education development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainability education in India:
A discourse in education development |
| title_short | Sustainability education in India:
A discourse in education development |
| title_sort | sustainability education in india:
a discourse in education development |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97160 |