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Kasvaminen globaaliin vastuuseen

Yhteiskunnan toimijoiden puheenvuoroja
Opetusministeriön julkaisuja 2008:40 Liisa Rohweder (toim.)

Lukijalle
Julkaisu Kasvaminen globaaliin vastuuseen - yhteiskunnan toimijoiden puheenvuoroja on neljäs teos, joka on tuotettu opetusministeriön keväällä 2007 käynnistämän projektin Kasvaminen maailmanlaajuiseen vastuuseen/ Fostran till globalt ansvar tausta-aineistoksi.

Lue Lisää, minedu.fi, (5.14Mb pdf-file)

ISBN 978-952-485-594-5 (nid.)
ISBN 978-952-485-595-2 (PDF)
ISSN 1458-8110

Harmoni eller konflikt, Sopusointua vai Ristiriitaa?

I rapporten analyserar och sammanfattar lärarutbildare och forskare från olika lärarutbildningsenheter i Finland de faktorer och pedagogiska tillämpningar som bidrar till miljömedvetenhet och inlärning. En av de viktigaste faktorerna är människans förhållande till naturen och naturkontakten. Andra faktorer och teman som behandlas i rapporten är alternativa natursyner, klimatförändring som ett aktuellt miljötema, miljöfostran och hållbar utveckling som begrepp och innehåll från olika personers och gruppers perspektiv samt lokala och globala samarbetsprojekt inom hållbar utveckling.

ISBN 978-952-12-2157-6

Kohti kestävää kehitystä. Pedagoginen lähestymistapa
"Tiivistelmä
Kestävän kehityksen merkitys työelämässä ja siten myös opettajien työssä korostuu tulevaisuudessa. Muun muassa globaali vastuullisuus, ilmastonmuutos, sosiaalisen eriarvoistumisen kysymykset, kulttuurien erilaisuus ja talouden globalisoituminen ovat teemoja, jotka tulee yhä painokkaammin ottaa huomioon tulevaisuuden yhteiskunnassa. Koulutuksen yhtenä tehtävänä on tuottaa osaamista, jolla yhteiskuntaa ja työelämää voidaan näiden kysymysten näkökulmasta kehittää kestävään suuntaan..."

Lue lisää

Education for Global Responsibility – Finnish Perspectives
Publications of the Ministry of Education 2007:31
Edited by Taina Kaivola and Monica Melén-Paaso
"Foreword: This publication is the first outcome of the project Education for Global Responsibility launched by the Finnish Ministry of Education in spring 2007. One of the cornerstones of this project is the Global Education 2010 Programme. The project intends to provide a conceptual framework based on science, which the programme still lacks. The broad purpose of the project Education for Global Responsibility is to cover not only the educational system but the whole of Finnish society..." (Read more, 2.78Mb pdf-file )

From Sustainable Development to Global Responsibility

Monica Melén-Paaso, Councellor for Education, Ministry of Education. Presented at the Joint seminar by the national ESD-resource centre & the UniPID-network Dialogues on sustainable paths for the future: ethics, welfare and responsibility (pdf-file 37kb), 7–8 May 2008, Turku School of Economics

International

The new edition of BELIEVING CASSANDRA includes a stirring new Foreword by Paul Hawken, who calls the book “erudite” and “exceptionally readable” and likens it to a “neurotransmitter” that helps signal the way for forward to a sustainable future. This beautiful new edition also includes fully updated global data, new case studies and examples, as well updates to the memorable anecdotes and diary entries that AtKisson uses to help make sustainability both more personal, and more understandable. The new material in BELIEVING CASSANDRA draws on an additional decade of experience, including work for the United Nations leading up to and including the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009.

Alan AtKisson: The Sustainability Transformation In THE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION, AtKisson and Earthscan have taken the successful 2008 hardback “The ISIS Agreement” and repackaged it in a beautiful paperback edition, with a new preface, a new cover, and even a new title. THE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION has become a widely adopted text in sustainability training programs, and the new preface helps to guide professionals and students — as well as general interest readers — to those parts of the book that they will find most immediately useful. Renowned writer, editor, and climate activist Bill McKibben has called THE SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION “beyond useful — it’s necessary, rigorous, comprehensive, unsentimental, and yet highly readable, even moving.”

For more information on both books see the AtKisson Group or Earthscan web sites.

Earthscan: Publishing for a sustainable future

Earthscan is the leading publisher in English on climate change, sustainable development and environmental technology for academic and professional, and also policy and general readers. The aim is to publish original, reliable and significant work that helps to foster the conditions for genuine sustainability by providing the means for understanding and analysing the issues and the tools for resolving them.

Earthscan was originally founded by the International Institute for Environment and Development in 1987, and continue to publish in association with them and in partnership with a range of environmental and development organizations world wide. It is an independent company and the books and journals are distributed throughout the world.

ESD Sverige

ESD Sverige - Referenslista aktuell litteratur.

A list on current literature on the teaching of Sustainable Development, mostly in Swedish. The list is maintained by the Swedish WWF.

MEdIES

MEDIES (Mediterranean Education Initiative for Environment & Sustainability, with an emphasis on water and waste) is a Type II initiative that was launched during the WSSD in Johannesburg. This initiative/partnership on Education for Environment and Sustainability (EfES)- as the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) was called for a short time after the Thessaloniki Conference (1997)- facilitates the educational community and students to contribute in a systematic and concrete way for the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Millennium Declaration goals, through the successful application of innovative Educational Programmes in countries around the Mediterranean basin.

Unipid

Finnish Universities' Partnership for International Development (UniPID)
UniPID is a university partnership network for international development.

Background documents ESD

2009	Sustainable development - New bearings for the Nordic Countries
	The United Nations Environment Programme
2000-2002	The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development The Millennium Development Goals
Oct 2002	Baltic 21E-ohjelma kestävän kehityksen edistäminen koulutuksessa (in Finnish) Työryhmän ehdotus ohjelman käynnistyssuunnitelmaksi
2002	Baltic 21 Series No x/02: An Agenda 21 for Education in the Baltic Sea Region – Baltic 21E
2002	Report from working-group 2: For the Baltic 21 Education Sector Network
Dec 2001	Education for sustainable development in Finland Marja-Leena Loukola, Simo Isoaho & Kaisa Lindström
2000	The Haga Declaration