PERSPECTIVES OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN 21ST CENTURY

Abstract

Sustainable living means living with an increasing awareness of how ones daily choices effect the natural environment: Air, Water, Land, Sea, Plants and Animals and taking action to reduce impact. Our daily life style choices cycle back to affect ones own body through the water we drink, food we eat, air we breathe the way we connect our self to our surroundings. Education for sustainable development has its special role to motivate people for conservation of resources, protection of environment and avoidance of wastage of resources and thus to make population addressable to deal the future problems of environmental degradation. This can be best achieved by making environmental education as a part of basic education. Environmental education is a continuous life long process where individuals and society become aware of their environment by gaining knowledge, values, skills, necessary experiences and by knowing wise actions. To make a good blend of environmental and economical imperatives, we need to use environmental education as a tool at school and college level to help individuals to be able to achieve sustainable future. The main aim of the following study is to highlights the perspective of Education for sustainable development at school and higher educational level and for the population as awhole The said study has discussed and stressed upon the importance of the correction of drawbacks of the present scenario of Environmental Education in Schools and higher Education. To pinpoint at the innovative and effective methods of education, the following points are discussed in detail.