Education on its own is valuable to the economy regardless as to whether it is in a sustainable environment or not. Admittedly it is better in a sustainable community and education with regards to a sustainable environment is obviously more beneficial. Education is important and plays a role in everyone’s everyday lives. People would believe that after your younger years of school life people stop learning, however this is not the case. People are always learning new things whether it be a skill in sport or an organisation to carry out tasks, a method for investigation or simple tasks like cooking or using something we use everyday such as learning how to find the time and date on your mobile. School life is just the basics it’s the start to a new open world full of possibilities and opportunities to allow us to develop in a developing and changing world.
Although there are obvious lessons for certain subject area which in my opinion are more important such as the more academic subjects, topics that affect our everyday lives, that we encounter day in day out, all the time no matter how big or small. These types of areas of learning are business, geography and science. These are the subject which I would consider to be useful to ensure a sustainable development for everyone. Other subjects like English and foreign languages are sub-subject areas which could help to improve the relationships with other countries to broaden sustainable development beyond just one particular country to allow the countries e.g. LEDC’s (Less Economically Developed Countries) to adapt so they understand how to avoid such issues as greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, with the opportunity to improve on the areas we failed on.
Each day you learn something new everyday, quoting a very famous saying often spoken in English, “you learn something new everyday”. And people learn from their mistakes too which gives us the sense to avoid it the next time adaptation to our surroundings and we all do this but we do it in different ways to each other.
Education with reference to sustainable development is a key topic. I think we as a population (national, inter-national or global) should consider. It is a subject of high importance and requires everyone to think about what they are doing currently to the environment to realise the damage that just them as an individual is creating, compare it to a population of individuals to compare the problems we are causing and what it could do in the not too distant future and in the distant future for our future generations to show them what problems they face of which is yet to come. Then they should be shown what they can do to avoid this outcome and to improve their standards relating it to sustainability.
This allows us to find a better understanding and widen community awareness and this enables us to teach what we know, understand and have learnt to the next generations of what is going on and to come up with ways to avoid a terrible and avoidable future if we act to change it in the world of today. If we were alive to see what destruction we have caused to the earth in another 100 years we would be disgraced with ourselves at the expense of our arrogance, greed, lack of interest, enthusiasm and motivation to change it for the better. Teaching these issues to a younger child will be beneficial as a child’s brain and memory is more likely to absorb the information it receives, also although a child’s mind is simplistic it is imaginative and could possibly come up with a logical way to avoid or improve a problem. With the combination of sustainable development and the scientific aspects of geography especially the relationship to physical geography applying this to our everyday life styles this interaction is a unique way to better everyone’s lives globally and bringing all countries economically wealthy and poor together to tackle the big issue together as one massive global nation of the human race.
Some people may believe that topics to do with sustainable development and that relate to the world are uninteresting and boring. To prevent these views people must not be presented with a load of figures and numbers relating to data that the presenter has recorded and analysed although perhaps it would offer incite to some background knowledge of the relevant topic. Maybe alternative ways of interesting the audience would be to involve them in tasks, research and experiments for investigations that need to be recorded, this may allow better understanding to the public of how things work, and how other methods are planned to work.
I agree with Haigh in his comment that is quoted below that those at the higher end of the chain of command who teach the issues and consequences of the publics actions and what they can change. However he mentions that they teach this practice to others but they do not listen to their own advice.
“Although lately Western education has been thinking harder about personal responsibility and development, learners find turning the lens of enquiry inward on themselves unusual and are uncomfortable being thus placed in the role of "international learners." Despite such problems, such experiments benefit learners and teachers by encouraging them to question the worldviews and presuppositions that presently underpin Western educational structures.”
He also mentions that despite the problems faced of the world of today there have been improvements that have been noticeable worldwide from relevant teaching and learning skills.
Source: http://jsi.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/2/271
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