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Sustainability education - A challenge for South-East Asia and Europe.


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Kaerchner-Ober, Renate and Dippel, Uwe (2011) Sustainability education - A challenge for South-East Asia and Europe. Journal of Social Sciences, 7 (1). pp. 90-99. ISSN 1549-3652

Abstract

Problem statement: South-East Asia and Europe face rapid changes in social, economical and political terms. Though starting points are different, both regions experience similar problems. We see a strong slowdown of economic growth; changing proportions of the population through migration, natural disasters, economic reasons and aging populations. Problems and conflicts occur in the first decade of the new millennium, as a lot of changes in the educational sector have been undertaken. This study deals with sustainability education in both regions. Approach: In particular, we compare issues of higher education in Malaysia and Germany. We explore current tendencies and changes from various perspectives and how they fit into a concept of sustainability education. (Or is it education to sustainability, respectively sustainable education?) Results: It is shown, that sustainability in the educational field is possible only, if related to a socio-cultural context that considers the disposition of the individual; instead of using assumptions gathered and subsequently transferred from a society distinct in its predominant descriptors, respectively from determinators of some abstract industrial process demands. Conclusion: Sustainable education is recognized as a not a priori transferable entity in the global context. It must rather be contextualized and suitably embedded into individual and divers societal environs.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Modern Language and Communication
Publisher: Science Publications
Keywords: Sustainable education; Curricula; Malaysia; Germany.
Depositing User: Nur Farahin Ramli
Date Deposited: 07 Oct 2013 03:06
Last Modified: 22 Sep 2015 03:48
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24291
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