Schools are always used for strong, broad and normative goals fulfilling religious, cultural, national and ideological demands. Whatsoever these goals are the essence of it is policymaking, planning, and management of educational systems. Solely, for this reason, educationalists emphasize on effective implementation of policies to support education for sustainability. Generally, a policy is defined as a popular will translated into action or something that the government doesn’t intend to do. Institutions need to ensure a sustainable and diverse human future by executing policies through accurate planning and management at local, regional and global levels.
This piece of the paper focuses on achieving desired goals through new educational vision by efficiently using the broad area of education policy.
Healthy and viable systems:
To produce a sustainable world model for humanity, education systems should produce curricula and programs that ensure their learning up to the desired standards. Is systems are healthy and viable and discourage the promotion of inequality, discrimination and prejudice only then educational sustainability can be achieved ensuring a better future for society.
Holistic and interdisciplinary approach:
Education for sustainability asks for a more holistic approach integrating, values, lifestyles, and behaviors to form a balanced interaction between the humans and the earth. Such an interdisciplinary method requires the forces of policy, planning, and management to be successfully implemented.
Technical assistance:
Technical assistance in achieving sustainability means policy analysis, curriculum reform, teacher policies, and education sector development and program monitoring and evaluation to achieve effectively lifelong learning.
Chain of change:
Gaining sustainability in human lives is a lifelong process and not merely an event, it’s a chain of change connected to form a sustainable mindset. It requires training of students as responsible leaders to forward innovation and knowledge in this chain of change. It involves practicing skill-building, learning attitude and power to make a decision now and in the future.
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