Essentially, education for sustainable development (ESD) aims to enable the individual (learner) to actively and responsibly shape our common future - which centres on the ability to see the difference between a sustainable and an unsustainable development. This in turn prerequisites particular, sustainability-oriented knowledge and skills acquired via respective learning opportunities.
In Germany, a set of twelve "Participation Skills" (Gestaltungskompetenz) - originally made out by Prof. Gerhard de Haan and Dorothee Harenberg in 1999 (Institut Futur Freie Universitaet Berlin) - serve as a basis for ESD curriculum development.
Accordingly, ESD projects should clearly support the students' aptness to ....
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