Beyond ESD-EFA Dialogue
2012 年 3 巻 2 号 p. 1-6
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2012 年 3 巻 2 号 p. 1-6
The importance of the role of education in achieving sus-tainable development is underscored by the UN Decade of Educa-tion for Sustainable Development (DESD). As the final year of the DESD ap-proaching in 2014 and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Educa-tion for All (EFA) goals approaching their target date in 2015, this article provides an overview of the emerging context in which Education for Sustainable Devel-opment (ESD) and EFA are played out, based primarily on the review of the re-cent UN publications. Building upon the outcomes of the Rio+20 conference and on-going rethinking of development trajectories, the article calls for going beyond the traditional ESD-EFA dialogue and reshaping education as a critical lever for realizing more resilient, equitable and sustainable societies. The understanding that people are essential agents for redirecting development paths should pro-foundly change the ways in which education policy-makers craft and implement education policy.
