Introduction
In this entry, we consider how the transition to a healthy society existing on an ecologically viable Earth requires committed, critical, and competent citizens whose education enables them to aspire to values that are not purely based on the material side of their existence but also on care for fellow human beings and, indeed, other species, here and elsewhere, now and in the future. From this perspective, sustainability is primarily viewed as a driver of educational innovation, and education as a driver of sustainability. More specifically, sustainability is held to be an emerging property of an ongoing learning process, rather than an agreed upon outcome that can be comfortably and authoritatively prescribed, transferred, or taught. Examples of the possibilities and limitations of education and learning in addressing the key sustainability issues of our time are also...
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Wals, A.E.J. (2017). Sustainability and Education. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_445
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