Envisioning a future for young Balinese : the move towards sustainability in secondary education
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description: Sustainability has become a debate of international significance; it addresses how human development clashes with the finality of many resources on this planet and may threaten the well-being of future generations and ecosystems. The debate thus touches on the question of how humans interact with their environment - a prime concern of the discipline of geography. Behaving in line with sustainability involves changes in human self-conduct. Such change seems to require at least some awareness of and education about development and environmental processes. In fact, the importance of integrating sustainability in the domain of education has become a prominent one. Young people are often described as key players in implementing sustainability. Thus, international sustainability strategies view educating children and teenagers about sustainability as a prerequisite for future sustainable behaviour. In 2005 the United Nations [UN] Decade of Education for Sustainable Development commenced. In this context, scholars and educators discuss how to educate about sustainability. The UN suggests conveying an image of 'global cooperation' toward sustainable development in education whilst ensuring 'local relevance'. Yet, what ' local relevance' means and how it can be attained remains unclear. I argue that in efforts to implement sustainability education, both local debates of sustainability and local contexts of education should be examined. Otherwise, international sustainability education efforts may universalise ideas that are superficially portrayed as 'global' but that neglect local particularities. I take up the issue of sustainability education in Bali. On the Indonesian island, debates have emerged that propose ways to move forward amidst increasing environmental destruction and pollution as well as political and cultural change. These discussions sketch a 'Balinese way' of developing sustainably. I focus on how knowledge and debates around sustainability are engaged in se…
abstract: Sustainability has become a debate of international significance; it addresses how human development clashes with the finality of many resources on this planet and may threaten the well-being of future generations and ecosystems. The debate thus touches on the question of how humans interact with their environment - a prime concern of the discipline of geography. Behaving in line with sustainability involves changes in human self-conduct. Such change seems to require at least some awareness of and education about development and environmental processes. In fact, the importance of integrating sustainability in the domain of education has become a prominent one. Young people are often described as key players in implementing sustainability. Thus, international sustainability strategies view educating children and teenagers about sustainability as a prerequisite for future sustainable behaviour. In 2005 the United Nations [UN] Decade of Education for Sustainable Development commenced. In this context, scholars and educators discuss how to educate about sustainability. The UN suggests conveying an image of 'global cooperation' toward sustainable development in education whilst ensuring 'local relevance'. Yet, what ' local relevance' means and how it can be attained remains unclear. I argue that in efforts to implement sustainability education, both local debates of sustainability and local contexts of education should be examined. Otherwise, international sustainability education efforts may universalise ideas that are superficially portrayed as 'global' but that neglect local particularities. I take up the issue of sustainability education in Bali. On the Indonesian island, debates have emerged that propose ways to move forward amidst increasing environmental destruction and pollution as well as political and cultural change. These discussions sketch a 'Balinese way' of developing sustainably. I focus on how knowledge and debates around sustainability are engaged in se…
author: Jaskolski, Martina Sherin
language: en
date published: 2007
date modified: 2026-07-24T00:54:46Z
provider: Australian National University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Australian National University

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