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EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: NEED OF THE HOUR

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

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