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Education for sustainable development (EfSD, ESD; hereinafter ESD) is based on two concepts: education and sustainable development. The term education means “systematic schooling and training for work.” It is based on the Latin word “educare” (“bring up, rear, educate”). In a narrow sense, education refers to the process of passing on the knowledge and skills to be learned from one generation to the next. In the broadest sense, it refers to any act or experience that affects an individual’s mind, character, or physical ability (Jeronen 2012). According to Brundtland, sustainable development is a process of change that improves the livelihoods of present and future generations without compromising the Earth’s carrying capacity (WCED 1987). It is considered to have three dimensions: an ecological or an environmental dimension, a social and an economic one (Fien et al. 2009).
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Jeronen, E. (2022). Education for Sustainable Development. In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_351-1
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