Education for sustainable development in the western model of education
The paper focuses on the concept of education for sustainable development in the western model of education. The author considers the experience of the U.S., France and Britain, where the most important condition for the ideology of sustainable development is a consensus in society and understanding in its various sectors
society, education, sustainable development, education for sustainable development
1. Vlasjuk N.N. Education as the factor of adaptation of a society to steady development: the methodological bases of a problem. Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. no. 4. pp. 7-15. In Russian.
2. Education in interests of steady development in the international documents and agreements. Moscow, 2005. URL: http://lib.irk.ru/otdels/oek/doc/Uchimsya%20myslit.pdf Accessed 28 Aug 2012.
3. U.S. Department of Education, Office of the Under Secretary, Proceedings Report From the Sustainability Education Summit. September 20-21, 2010, Washington, D.C., 2011. URL: www2.ed.gov/.../reports/.../sustainability/su. Accessed 3 March 2012.
4. Noah Feinstein. Climate Change and Sustainable Development: The Response from Education, 2009. URL: http://dpu.dk/RPEHE and http://edusud.dk 2009. Accessed 3 November 2012.
5. Prosperini Ya. France in searches of new ethics of education. The Science and formation in interests of steady development. Moscow, 2006. pp. 212-217. In Russian.
6. Mazurov J.L., Malakhova S.M. Education in the field of steady development in the Great Britain. URL: http: // www.geogr.msu.ru/ESD Accessed 21 Jun 2007.