Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future

UNESCO, and the international community in general, believes that we need to foster - through education - the values, behaviour, and lifestyles required for a sustainable future. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is rooted in a new vision of education that helps students better understand the world in which they live, addressing the complexity and interconnectedness of problems such as poverty, wasteful consumption, environmental degradation, population, health, conflict and human rights that threaten our future.

Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future will enable teachers to plan learning experiences that empower their students to develop and evaluate alternative visions of a sustainable future and to work creatively with others to help bring their visions of a better world into effect. It will also enhance the computer literacy of teachers and build their skills in using multimedia-based resources and strategies in their teaching.

Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is available in two multimedia formats – a CDROM and an Internet programme www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/.

Following is an extract from the content table that lists the Interdisciplinary Curriculum Themes

Module 10: Culture and religion for a sustainable future

Module 11: Indigenous knowledge and sustainability

Module 12: Women and sustainable development

Module 13: Population and development

Module 14; Understanding world hunger

Module 15: Sustainable agriculture

Module 16: Sustainable tourism

Module 17; Sustainable communities

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