- Title
- Reflections on the ‘3rd World Environmental Education Congress: Educational pathways towards sustainability’, Italy, 2005
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6096
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008619
- Description
- Conference Theme: The congress theme ‘Educational pathways towards sustainability’ foregrounded the current ‘state of play’ in environmental education / education for sustainability, at the start of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), and drew attention to the role of education in creating pathways towards sustainability. Mario Solomone, convenor of the congress, in his orientation to the congress describes the congress as being about ‘cultural changes and cultural forces for change’, highlighting the role of education, training and communication in redirecting values, knowledge and behaviour to construct a human society ‘that is fairer and more aware of the equilibrium of a beautiful and fragile planet’ (Salomone, 2005: 6). To facilitate deliberations during the conference a set of interrelated themes were established which included: communication and the environment; paths to sustainability; research and assessment in environmental education; sustainable education; training the trainers; community awareness; promoting participation and governance and creating a network; economics and ecology; environment and health; farming and related issues; ethics; and emotional involvements. These congress themes, together with an impressive array of keynote papers kept congress participants actively engaged with the question of the DESD.
- Format
- 6 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Lotz-Sisitka, H. (2005) Reflections on the ‘3rd World Environmental Education Congress: Educational pathways towards sustainability’, Italy, 2005. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 22 . pp. 172-177. ISSN 0256-7504
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Lotz-Sisitka, Heila (Distinguished Professor)
SDG 04. Quality Education
RU Department of Education
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