Key EfS Documents

Visions of the Future: Why we need to teach for tomorrow.

If one of the key roles of education is to prepare young people for the future, why is the future a missing dimension in education? This book breaks exciting new ground by bringing together three crucial concerns:

• the central role that images of the future play in social and cultural change
• the nature of young people's hopes and fears for the future
• the need for schools to educate for a future that will be very different from the present

Part One looks at the role of education in turbulent times and how students can be prepared more effectively for life in the 21st century. Part Two described recent research on primary and secondary pupil's views of the future and gender. Part Three contains case studies of good curriculum practice and consideration of wider implications.

This book will be of interest to all who work in primary, secondary and initial teacher education. It will be of particular value in shaping staff development, the humanities, Personal and Social Education, Citizenship and Environmental Education. (this was taken from the Trentham Books website)

A National Review of Environmental Education and its Contribution to Sustainability: Frameworks for Sustainability: Envisioning a better future

This report provides the conceptual context for understanding Environmental Education's contribution to sustainability. It attempts to define the components of education for sustainability and reviews international and national frameworks, which support this approach to Environmental Education. The document provides analysis as well as recommendations to improve strategic planning and actions for sustainability through Environmental Education in Australia.

Chapter 2 'Imagining a Better Future', Engaging People in Sustainability

Put on your blindfold and clear your mind...let all the thoughts and worries of your day drift away...IMAGINE...what would a sustainable world look like to you?...take a few minutes to move through it, in your own time, to explore it...on a large sheet of paper, draw your vision...think of five key words that you associate with it...take time to reflect...what has influenced and informed you vision?...What elements would need to be present to create this vision?...What implications does this vision have for what you or your community does now?...How does your neighbor's vision differ from yours, and how might the two visions interact?