Children and Sustainable Development Ecological Education in a Globalized World /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Battro, Antonio M. (Editor), Léna, Pierre (Editor), Sánchez Sorondo, Marcelo (Editor), von Braun, Joachim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Religion and sociology.; Climate change.; Science education.; Sustainable development.; Well-being.; Children.; Poverty.; Science Education.; Sustainable Development.; Poverty, Aid and Development.; Religion and Society.; Child Well-being.; Climate Change Management and Policy.

This book addresses the changes in education practices, especially basic education, necessitated by the global challenges of climate change and sustainable development and in a context characterized by increasing poverty and inequality, migration and refugees. Written by a range of international sch...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Environment, Climate and Education
• Chapter 1.Educating Children to Bend the Curve: For a Stable Climate, Sustainable Nature and Sustainable Humanity
• Chapter 2. Children as Agents of Change for Sustainable Development
• Chapter 3. Notes on Child Labor and Education: A Personal Statement
• Chapter 4. Scholas Citizenship
• Chapter 5.Learning, Literacy and Sustainable Development: Inclusion, Vulnerability, and the SDGs
• Chapter 6. Educating Students to Sustainability: The Experience of “La main à la pâte”
• Chapter 7.Evidence Based Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2016-2030
• Chapter 8. The Sustainable Planet: Towards an Education for Sustainability
• Part 2: How Could Education Evolve in a Diversity of Conteexts?
• Chapter 9. Structures, Processes and Agents of Educational Changes
• Chapter 10. Low Attainers in a Global Knowledge Economy
• Chapter 11. Unequal World, Unequal Education
• Chapter 12. Fe y Alegría and the Educational Challenges and Opportunities of Our World
• Chapter 13. A Bright Star for Every Child Education in Rural China
• Chapter 14. AmritaRITE: A Holistic Model for Inclusive Education in Rural India
• Chapter 15. The Assumpta Science Center Ofekata – Owerri (ASCO)
• Part: 3.Children, Students and Teachers
• Chapter 16
• Formative Childhood from a Neurobiological Perspective etc.