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Title Education for sustainable development : challenges, strategies, and practices in a globalizing world / edited by Anastasia Nikolopoulou, Taisha Abraham, Farid Mirbagheri.

Publication Info. New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 232 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Globalization and the Politics of Exclusion; 1 -- Caste, Exclusion, and Marginalized Groups in India: Dalit Deprivation in India; 2 -- Education in a Globalizing Era: Implications for Disabled Girls; Part II: From Rio to Indigenous Cultural Resources: Education for Sustainable Development; 3 -- Education for Sustainable Development: The Concept and Its Connection to Tolerance and Democracy; 4 -- Education for Sustainable Tribal Development.
Summary Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges, Strategies, and Practices in a Globalizing World carves a path for future educators. It demonstrates that to pursue education for sustainable development, it is vital that one crosses disciplinary, institutional, and epistemological borders. The articles explore sustainable development as a process that embraces issues related to environment, poverty, health, security, democracy, gender, and human rights; they conceive sustainable development education as focusing on the holistic development of the body and mind. This idea is also central to t.
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Subject Environmental education.
Environmental education.
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development.
World citizenship.
World citizenship.
Education -- Social aspects.
Education -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Nikolopoulou, Anastasia.
Abraham, Taisha.
Mirbagheri, Farid.
Other Form: Print version: Education for sustainable development. New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2010 9788132102939 (DLC) 2009044223 (OCoLC)460711593
ISBN 9788132104919 (electronic book)
8132104919 (electronic book)
9788132108023 (ebook)
8132108027 (ebook)
9788132102939 (hardback)