Education for Sustainable Futures

Douglas Bourn is Professor of Development Education and Director of Development Education Research Centre at University College London, UK. He is chair of the Academic Network on Global Education and Learning (ANGEL) and Global Learning London.Namrata Sharma is on the faculty at the State University of New York, USA, and an expert with the United Nations’ Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network.Mirian Vilela is the Executive Director of the Earth Charter International Secretariat and the Center for Education for Sustainable Development at UPEACE. Mirian has been working with the Earth Charter Initiative since early 1996.

Our planet and its inhabitants urgently need education and educationalists with inspiration to act responsibly as the book editors Douglas Bourn, Namrata Sharma, and Mirian Vilela write, and I fully agree. They have invited authors to share their rich knowledge, essays and debates for inspiring us readers to collaborate in transforming education guided by the Earth Charter. The chapters offer diverse perspectives on the ways education is and can be transformed with a common value basis of shared humanity, social justice, planetary wellbeing, interdisciplinarity and creative engaging pedagogies. Be inspired and join the collective action.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Douglas Bourn, Mirian Vilela, and Namrata SharmaPart I. Theoretical DebatesChapter 2. Preparing the Ground, Weaving a Tapestry, Writing a New Story: Three Metaphors Describing the Essential Role of the Earth Charter in Twenty-First Century Education; Sam Crowell and Mirian VilelaChapter 3. Democracy, Non-Violence, and Peace: The Earth Charter Cultivating its Seeds, a Perspective from Brazil; Daniela Carvalho Piaggio and Rose Marie InojosaChapter 4. The Earth Charter and the Development of a Planetary Consciousness in Brazilian Higher Education Institutions; Silvia Elizabeth Moraes, Josefina Moraes Arraut, Eduardo Moraes Arraut, and Pedro RogérioPart II. IntersectionalityChapter 5. Being Present: Intersectionality, Critical Global Citizenship Theorising and the Earth Charter; Mostafa GamalChapter 6. Bridging the Gaps with the Earth Charter: GCED and ESD Policies and Implementation; Alicia Jimenez and Laura EngelChapter 7. Integrating ESD and GCED in Higher Education Curriculum: Perspectives from Kenyatta University, Kenya; Mukirae Njihia, Damaris Kariuki, and Wilson MutumaChapter 8. Traditional Chinese and Earth Charter Values: Building an Ecological Civilization through Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship; MA ShuangPart III. Value-Creating EducationChapter 9. Pedagogical Implications of Framing Sustainability and Global Citizenship through the Earth Charter and Value-Creating Education; Namrata SharmaChapter 10. The Contributions of the Soka Amazon Institute to the Earth Charter in the Brazilian Amazon; Tamy KobashikawaChapter 11. The Earth Charter and Value-Creating Education: From the Perspective of Global Citizenship Education; Hiroko TomiokaChapter 12. Teacher Competency Development from Value-Creating Education; Ana B. García-Varela and Alejandro Iborra CuéllarChapter 13. Education for Environmental Justice and Actions for the Era of Climate Emergency: Through the Earth Charter and Value-Creating Education; Michiyo KakegawaPart IV. Evidence from ResearchChapter 14. The Role of Empathy-Based GCE Pedagogy in Earth Charter; Natalya HanleyChapter 15. The Earth Charter and the Practice of Education for Sustainable Development; Qudsia KalsoomChapter 16. Climate Change and Just Transition through Earth Charter Lenses; Akpezi Ogbuigwe, Adesuwa Vanessa Agbedahin, and Joe Gachanja MachariaChapter 17. Peace Education: Praxis through the Arts; Alexis StonesPart V. From Policy to PracticeChapter 18. The Dance of the Rhizomes: Learning Processes Inspired by the Earth Charter; Waverli Maia Matarazzo-Neuberger and María de los Ángeles Vilches-NoratChapter 19. The Earth Charter, Ethics and Educating for Climate Change; Kartikeya V Sarabhai, Prithi Nambiar, and Meena A.S.Chapter 20. Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship with the Earth Charter, a Propeller towards Transformative Action in Educational Systems and Institutions: A Perspective from Argentina; Carla SabbatiniChapter 21. Global Social Justice and Transformative Education for Social Change; Douglas BournChapter 22. Conclusion; Douglas Bourn, Mirian Vilela, and Namrata Sharma