The Adapted Global Attitudes and Values of Sustainable Development for Education
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Nawal Okour, The Jordanian Environmental Society (Al Hashemyah), Jordan.
Sustainable Development (SD) is a remedial strategy for dangerous situations. SD can improve the quality of the life and the environment, both of which must be achieved to satisfy the needs of the present and future generations. SD is entirely linked with Education to be a new educational strategy of (SDE). This new strategy could activate raising awareness and gain values to protect environmental elements. This paper aims at identifying the adopted global attitudes and values of Sustainable Development for Education (SDE). The workshops of the 2014World Conference on Sustainable Development Education (WCSDE) are used as a sample. The qualitative analysis is implemented, the researcher analyzes the positive attitudes and values within the conference's workshops, and then the result of these attitudes and values are categorized into social sustainability, ecological sustainability, and economic sustainability. More investigation and justification were set up.
Sustainable Development Education (SDE), Sustainable Development (SD), Social Sustainability, Ecological Sustainability, Economic Sustainability
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