Education for sustainability - A critical contribution to the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

Abstract

In this text, the author presents and questions the theme education for sustainable development and its relationship with the globalization context, with the sustainable lifestyle and the construction of a planetary civilization. He also presents the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development as a great opportunity for educational systems and to educate for a sustainable living. He detach that we need much more to educate for another possible world. Finally, he asks what do we really need to learn in order to save the planet.