Sustainable Education and Perspectives
EDU 20005
Assessment 2
Name of Course Moderator
Swinburne University
Report
Name of Student
Date of Submission
Word Count: 4000
Executive Summary The school has slowly and steadily increased the awareness among the students and the faculty for environmental education and sustainability. This was a plan that had been developed by the environmental sustainability committee in the year2010. We have met all the targets for 2020 and it is appropriate to place the vision for environmental sustainability in education for the next 10 years from 2020 to 2030. The visions and the achievements of the Environmental Sustainability Leadership for this K -6 school is presented in the report. The report
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Sustainability is still a developing area in learning and knowledge and the aim is to develop the interventions that will increase the knowledge base for sustainability in the next ten …show more content…
It is a dynamic approach that helps individuals to understand that the quality of life can be improved even while protecting the resources on the planet that are the support systems for all forms of life on earth. The 5 key principles in sustainability are quality of life, fairness& equity, participation and partnerships. It is the awareness of the ecological constraints and limits of our natural environment within which we need to make use only of what is essential to live. Sustainability is therefore the use of natural resources in the environment that does not jeopardize the essential ecological system of the planet and crates a balance in the well being and health of the environment, the process of society and industrialization. To attain this balance in the future and to maintain it education is essential in sustainability. (Global