Di Giulio, Antonietta

Ruesch Schweizer, Corinne

Adomßent, Maik

Blaser, Martina

Bormann, Inka

Burandt, Simon

Fischbach, Robert

Kaufmann-Hayoz, Ruth

Krikser, Thomas

Künzli David, Christine

Michelsen, Gerd

Rammel, Christian

Streissler, Anna

Education on the path to sustainability.

Proposal of an indicator set to evaluate education for sustainable development.

Bern

2012

9783906456690

Summary
A majority of actors in politics and science stated that the idea of sustainability should be established in national education systems around the world. Practitioners, politicians and scientists all unanimously agree that simply taking action is not enough – it is also necessary to evaluate how successful efforts at reaching this goal have been. Subsequently a number of initiatives with the aim of developing relevant indicators started in different countries, including Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

The international research project ″Development of Indicators to Evaluate Offerings and Performance in the Area of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)″ (2008-2011) is one of these initiatives. It was supported in Germany by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), in Austria by the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture (BMUKK) and in Switzerland by the State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER).

This book presents the theoretical foundations, methods and chosen results of this interdisciplinary project. The goal of the project was to present indicators that would allow to answer the question of whether and to what extent the idea of sustainability has been integrated in the education system for all levels of formal education, and not only at a national level in the participating countries, but also in international comparison. The work resulted in a set of ten ESD indicators, which due to a process of negotiation among actors from science, politics and practice has a broad foundation. The book provides a transnational description of the indicators and a description format to be used in their concretization for a given country. It thus provides a basis for the further implementation of indicators for education for sustainable development. The book is an extract of the project′s results provided for the international expert conference in the aftermath of the project where the indicators were put up for discussion in a broader context. In the full version, available only in German, the indicators are concretized for the three countries participating in the project.

preface
Bernhard Pulver

1. introduction
1.1 initial situation, project team and funding
1.2 goal of the project and expected results

2. theoretical foundations
2.1 Indicators
2.2 steering factors as a basos to formulative objectives defining desired end states (DES objectives) for education for sustainable development
2.3 concepetaulisation of sustainability and of education for sustainable development
2.4 Indicators already existing and Indicators that have to be newly developed by the project with a view to a comprehensive evaluation of the integration of sustainabilty in the education system

3. limitation to the developed ESD Indicator set
3.1 limitations due to the state of implementation of educational for sustainable development
3.2 education for sustainable development as a segment of the educational system
3.3 limitations related to international comparability
3.4 conclusions regarding the ESD indicators developed in the project

4. methodogical eudcation
4.1 methodology
4.2 the individual methodological elements
4.3 critique of the methodological approach

5. explenatory remarks on the proposed ESD Indicator set
5.1 the education system and the designation of the educational levels
5.2 complexity reduction in the ESD Indicator set
5.3 objectives defining desired end states (DES objectives) forming the basis of the ESD Indicator set
5.4 description format used for the ESD Indicator set
5.5 overviwe of the indicator in the ESD Indicator set
5.6 use and further development of the ESD indicator set

6. the ESD Indicator set
6.1 education in specific competencies in the field of sustainable development
6.2 teachers` competencies in implementing education for sustainable development
6.3 orientation of educational institutions to sustainability
6.4 establishment of education for sustainable development
6.5 societal awareness of sustainability

7. list of participants expert

8. references

appendix
A. UNECE indicators (2009) and the ESD Indicator set
B. areas of national and international educational indicators and the ESD indicator set
C. UNECE indicator 2.1.1 - thematic categories

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