Behavior of Educational Organizations in Education for Sustainable Development

Abstract

This article deals with a literature review of internalizing Education of Sustainable Development (ESD) in Indonesia. The important point about ESD relates to the issue of how educational institutions, includes Indonesia should respond to the challenges and opportunities posed by the idea of sustainability. ESD aims at developing competencies that empower Individuals to reflect on their own actions, taking into account their current and future social, economic and environmental impacts, from a local and a global perspective. ESD has to be understood as an integral part of quality education, inherent in the concept of lifelong learning: All educational institutions – from preschool to tertiary education and in non-formal and informal education – can and should consider it their responsibility to deal intensively with matters of sustainable development and to foster the development of sustainability competencies. ESD is holistic and transformational education that addresses learning content and outcomes, pedagogy and the learning environment. Thus, ESD does not only integrate contents such as climate change, poverty and sustainable consumption into the curriculum; it also creates interactive, learner centred teaching and learning settings.