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Colección: INTERAMER
Número: 67
Año: 1999
Autor: Eloísa Trellez Solís and Gustavo Wilches Chaux
Título: Education for a Sustainable Future in the Americas

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgement

Preface

Executive Summary

CHAPTER I
COMMITMENTS TO CHANGE

- Commitments to Sustainable Development: 1970 - 1980

- The 1980s and Latin American Environmental Thought

- Moving Toward the XXI Century

CHAPTER II
MAIN TRENDS AND CHALLENGES

- Sustainable Development and Education

- Inter-Generational Accountability

- Sustainability as a System and a Process

- Development as a Process and Sustainability

- Process Indicators and Criteria to Assess Sustainability

- Subjective Indicators of Quality of Life

- Sustainable Development: From Intention to Reality

CHAPTER III
EDUCATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE IN THE AMERICAS

- Latin America and the Caribbean: Total Biodiversity

- North America: Less Biodiversity

- Education as an Exchange of Knowledge

- Other forms of Knowledge, Sensitivity, Rationality

- Education for Wonder, Reflection, Commitment and Action

- “Humanist” and “Technocratic” Visions

- The Pioneering Purpose of Environmental Education

- The Ethical Dimension of Environmental Education for Sustainable Development

- From the Global to the Local and Vice Versa

- Education for Participation

CHAPTER IV
MOBILIZATION FOR ACTION

- Change or Inertia

- The Basis of Change

- Participation and Action

CHAPTER V
IMPLEMENTING EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN THE AMERICAS

- The Subjects of Education and the Guides for the Process

- Scope for Transformation

- Recommendations and Action

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