Policy Brief: Quality Education for Sustainable Development, A priority in achieving sustainability and well-being for all
This Policy Brief argues that the foremost priority for educational development should now
be on enhancing quality, transcending past objectives focused primarily on access and
attainment (i.e., Education For All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals).
Enhancing Quality Education should become a cornerstone of both the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) and the post-2014 Global Action Programme on ESD for quality
education is essential for further progress across all dimensions of sustainable development.
Enhancing Quality Education can be achieved through integration of a holistic perspective on
education for sustainable development (ESD) and use of measurable learning targets/outcomes.
This Policy Brief presents an ESD Learning Performance Framework (LPF), addressing
both learning processes and educational contents, that provides a roadmap for how stronger
ESD can promote greater educational quality overall.
The effectiveness of Quality Education for Sustainable Development could be significantly
enhanced through applying the LPF to:
Support curriculum developers in designing holistic and relevant school curricula that
includes transformative educational and teaching approaches;
Strengthen teachers competency for ESD through training on the LPF and its application;
Guide school administrators to develop safe learning environments that serve as models
of sustainability and support experiential education;
Encourage education policy makers to consider transformative learning approaches in
educational reforms and the integration of ESD into standard educational policy.
The LPF therefore can facilitate well-informed educational policy making, curriculum
design, course content, teaching pedagogies, and learning environments.
The LPF also provides a basis for developing measurable, qualitative learning targets and progressive
indicators for assessing global progress on DESD, the Global Action Programme on
ESD and the SDGs, as well as monitoring educational performance at national and local levels.
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