“Sustainable development education raises question of choice we have to make of a French school

While Emmanuel Macron announced, on April 16, in Marseille that his five -year term “will be ecological or will not be”, by displaying the project of “making France a great ecological nation”, we, citizens and citizens Committed to achieving the objectives of sustainable development (SDD) [ adopted in 2015 by the United Nations ], let us subscribe to this project and singularly wish to call the attention of the Head of State on the educational tool.

The “ecological nation” has an essential prerequisite for a school nation and an ecological school.

The following is the subject of a first collective approach to reflecting actors in education for sustainable development and ecological transition. And we know Emmanuel Macron’s interest in school, who has just given a new testimony in Sorbonne in front of the rectors, shortly before the start of the school year [August 25].

We are convinced of the need to consider teaching with unprecedented challenges launched in human race as a real priority within public administrations which transmit knowledge, in secondary and professional education, under the Initial and continuous training.

obeying a logic of transversality of knowledge and educational continuity, Educations to the processes of nature, living and desirable development, the basis of which is first scientific, bring methods of thought, choices of Values ​​and carry factors of trust and well-being, in particular by elements of response that each needs to freely walk in all the dimensions of their life, personal, family, professional, citizen, militant …

They arouse, for the youngest, the curiosity and the desire to learn by affecting the complexity of interactions within nature and the living, as well as to the resources offered by technical inventiveness.

Multiple issues must be studied during the school career from different angles, adapted to the student understanding capacity. It is also a factor of motivation for teachers, which we struggle to recruit, train and motivate, from the moment their freedom of innovation is guaranteed and accompanied.

There is no shortage of entries: what is the singularity of the challenges of our time, its nature, its intensity, its variability and its possible consequences? What does science tell us? What is biodiversity ? How is his erosion worrying? What are the links between climate and biodiversity? What does the term “planetary limits” mean? What are the risk assessment tools, what parameters and what resources to design what solutions of individual and collective life?

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