Contributions of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to Quality Education

Abstract

In today’s interconnected world, information is easily acquired. Facts that professionals once
collected as a result of years of study are now readily available on the Internet. Today’s
education requires knowing what to do with information, that is, how to analyze it; make
sense of its abundance and complexity; cooperate with others to synthesize information; and
communicate the results. Consequently, quality education is no longer based primarily on
fact acquisition. As education based on fact acquisition becomes increasingly outdated,
policymakers debate the basis for transforming their education systems. Yet, these
transformations require more than a vision of what is possible: they require evidence that
will justify such. Evidence-based decision making is both encouraged and of growing
importance in the formal education community. The goal of this study is to provide evidence
that ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) contributes in many ways to a quality
education.

Keywords: Education, Sustainable Development, information