num_pages: 112
description: How can schools educate tomorrow's citizens to be responsible actors in an environmentally sustainable world? Creating sustainable production and consumption patterns has become a common concern worldwide. What role will education and life-long learning play in this ambitious enterprise? Appropriate policies and organizational strategies must be developed to support educators. Schools, teachers, and students can cooperate creatively in local initiatives with their communities to resolve environmental problems through active teaching and learning. This publication analyzes policy approaches, describes school initiatives, and explores innovative pedagogical methods ina number of OECD countries. These provide potential answers to this urgent question.
language: English
title: Environmental Learning for the 21st Century
titlecomplete: Environmental Learning for the 21st Century
publisher: Organization for Economic