Civic education for sustainable development and democratic school development in Germany–perspectives for the local community

Abstract

A civic education for sustainable development can theoretically be designed on the basis of a four-dimensional target model of sustainable development. According to this the goals of social justice, ecological sustainability, economic productivity and good governance refer to each other with conflicting aims. Within and across the social, ecological, economic and political dimensions, different modes of human action towards sustainable development can be distinguished on the micro-, the meso-, and the macro-structural levels of the society in order to balance the vertical coherence between local and global thinking and acting.