Open AccessEthics Teaching in Education for Sustainable Development
Author(s) -
Lars Samuelsson,
Niclas Lindström
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
athens journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2407-9898
pISSN - 2241-7958
DOI - 10.30958/aje.9-2-2
Subject(s) - education for sustainable development , sustainable development , engineering ethics , citizen journalism , democracy , political science , sociology , engineering , politics , law
Education for sustainable development (ESD) is nowadays internationally considered an important aspect of the overall education of children and young people in the world. It is included among the goals of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Besides its content – sustainable development – ESD is also characterized by its emphasis on a democratic and participatory educational procedure. In this paper, we show how both these aspects of ESD – its content and procedure – reveal the importance of bringing ethical considerations into ESD, as well as provide challenges for ethics teaching in ESD. Keywords: education for sustainable development (ESD), sustainable development, ethics education, teaching ethics, participatory education, controversial issues