TY - JOUR
T1 - Is Education for Sustainable Development the means to bring about inclusive development? Between idealist and alternative positions
AU - Bonal, Xavier
AU - Fontdevila, Clara
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - © 2017 Elsevier B.V. ‘Adjectival educations’, include a great diversity of proposals within which Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) features prominently. ESD has enjoyed privileged attention from international organizations, in order to move political agendas from a narrow and instrumental understanding to a more holistic conceptualisation of development. However, the project of ESD cannot be easily understood as the means to bring about inclusive development. On the basis of a literature review, this paper inquiries into the tension between idealistic and critical approaches of ESD to highlight how close or how far ESD is from a critical and comprehensive understanding of inclusive development.
AB - © 2017 Elsevier B.V. ‘Adjectival educations’, include a great diversity of proposals within which Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) features prominently. ESD has enjoyed privileged attention from international organizations, in order to move political agendas from a narrow and instrumental understanding to a more holistic conceptualisation of development. However, the project of ESD cannot be easily understood as the means to bring about inclusive development. On the basis of a literature review, this paper inquiries into the tension between idealistic and critical approaches of ESD to highlight how close or how far ESD is from a critical and comprehensive understanding of inclusive development.
U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.02.002
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.02.002
M3 - Review article
VL - 24
SP - 73
EP - 77
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
SN - 1877-3435
ER -