EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: NEED OF THE HOUR

Abstract

Any social renovation or transformation necessitates the use of education. Similarly, education is a critical component in achieving long-term sustainability. Across the globe, communities are realising that current development tendencies are unsustainable, and that public awareness through education and training is a critical component in influencing our more globalised society toward sustainability. ESD strives to create competences that allow individuals to reflect on their own activities from a local and global perspective, taking into account their current and future social, cultural, economic, and environmental implications. Individuals should also be empowered to perform in a complicated environment in a sustainable manner, which may require them to take risks and participate in socio-political processes in order to move their societies toward long-term development. ESD must be viewed as an integral part of high-quality education, ingrained in the concept of lifelong learning: all educational institutions, from preschool to tertiary education, as well as non-formal and informal education, can and should consider it their responsibility to address issues of sustainability and promote the development of sustainability competencies. In light of today's issues, ESD provides an education that matters and is truly suited for every learner. ESD has the potential to make the planet a better place to live for current and future generations. The goal of ESD is to provide people with the knowledge and skills they need for lifelong learning in order to help them find valuable solutions to their environmental, economic, and social problems, and the effective use of technology is a critical component of increasing educational institutions' efficiency in order to achieve these goals (UNESCO, 2006). Another difficult task is to achieve sustainable development targets by 2030, which can be accomplished through education. This paper describes the role of education for achieving sustainability through re-orienting the whole education structure and how we can integrate the sustainable development concept in our curriculum and use the suitable pedagogy to create awareness among students towards sustainable development make them ready to realize the need of sustainable development in present context and live accordingly.