The goal of sustainable development is to enable all people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and improve the quality of their lives without compromising the quality of life for future generations.
Delivering the curriculum through sustainable development education
Developing our children and young people as global citizens through sustainable development education is a key context for learning within Curriculum for Excellence. Sustainability issues feature prominently in the experiences and outcomes and offer learners an opportunity to engage with complex ethical issues relating to climate change, social justice, interdependence, and biodiversity.
In this regard sustainable development education is an ideal vehicle for interdisciplinary learning and can be used to bring relevance, depth, challenge and breadth to learning.
Embedding sustainability themes within the curriculum, and in the life of the school, develops our children and young people as global citizens and equips them with essential skills, values and attributes for learning, life and work. Whole school approaches to sustainability are vitally important if Scotland is to realise its ambitions to move towards a low carbon, zero waste future and deliver on the commitments outlined in 'Learning for Change: Scotland’s second action plan for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development'.
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