The Role Of Education In Promoting Sustainability And Social Responsibility

Abstract

More and more, sustainability and social responsibility are becoming a part of an appropriate modern education, and the practice of education comprises of a number of approaches that allow people to be involved both in environmental issues and other social issues. Educating people is an essential process in their daily lives but, equally important, people’s education is a channel of change in the way these people think, perceive, analyze, and decide in this context of more and more compulsory global issues like global warming, resource scarcity, and social injustices, including raising awareness, moral decision making, and sustainable practices. As sustainability is incorporated into the curricula for education, it encourages the environmental and social endeavors and the accompanying sound behaviour and thoughtful, careful thinking. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as endorsed by UNESCO and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is an experiential and community based, interdisciplinary method of learning that prepares responsible citizens of the world based on adopting pro planet proactive actions. Preambles in promoting sustainability education does not exempt even with gaps in curriculum and lack of resources because this is a moulding of future leaders, policymakers and ethical professionals. This research highlights how an education that could provide for nurturing and encompassing society, which could be a more just and a more resilient one.