From Sustainable Development to EfSD...

Thanks to Niels Schulz, Postdoctoral Fellow also of UNU-IAS in Yokohama, Japan for some interesting, timely and relevant links. Most have been added to the links section you can see in the right column.

We are beginning to think about what Sustainable Development is which is an excellent place to start. As we all know though the intention is to develop indicators for Education for Sustainable Development. As such if anyone knows of any places to look for educational indicators maybe at some point we can start to think about marrying the two?

I have been involved in matters of international 'quality assurance' which I'll talk about at some point and have collected some literature on international aspects of education. More later.

Thanks. I appreciate the interest, sincerely.

Comments Are Go!

Maybe I'll live to regret it but I just turned the comment moderation off. So, for the moment, anyone can instantly post comments on the blog without them being moderated. Moderation kind of went against my own personal ethos as well as the ethos that founded the blog in the first instance so it had to go really. However, at the first sign of trouble I would be obliged to reinstate it. For this I apologise in advance. Let's see...

Indicators of Sustainability

A dear friend and colleague, Claudia Ten Have (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at UNU-IAS, Yokohama), just whisked a link my way to a UNESCO/SCOPE Policy Brief on "Indicators of Sustainability: Reliable Tools for Decision making" [pdf, 1.7MB]. Its a good introductory document. It serves as a good example in terms of communication, at least. Of course our interest is Education for Sustainable Development but certainly some of the points raised are more generic. For example, p. 4 states:

"Since most of the legitimacy of indicators comes from their framing and conceptualization, stakeholders must be involved from the outset"

and from p.2:

"Making decisions without reliable indicators is like driving without road signs".

Claudias much-appreciated gesture also partially exonerates my decision to blog this foray...thanks Claudia.