Original scientific paper

Integral Sustainability and Learning

Vladimir LAY

Abstract

This article is a contribution to reflecting on the relationship
among integral sustainability as criterion/goal and
sustainable development as a project/process, as well as the
process of education (about social values) and learning
(knowledge). The author draws on the viewpoint that the
process of sustainable development is inherently a process of
learning through which one can, if one chooses to, learn to
build capacities and capabilities with the aim of living in a
more sustainable way. In the first chapter a preliminary
analysis of the topic's context is offered on two levels: the
level of Croatia, and planetary level. In the second chapter a
short discussion is reported, definitions of basic concepts
given and axiological origins considered. In the third chapter
of the article an overview of general and specific contents of
education and learning is given. A proposition of a general
curriculum is presented in ten topical "clusters". Without
nourishing and learning these general contents and topics,
and within them implied values, it is hard to develop an
understanding of integral sustainability and sustainable
development. Special contents of the curriculum, directly
concerning Croatia, are initially presented in a model of
three thematic "circles" derived from the analysis of natural
resources and environmental specifics of Croatia. These are
the following circles: a. "water-soil-food-(environmental)
agriculture"; b. "ambiental resources-Karst-biological
diversity-development / "environmentalisation" of tourism"; c.
"renewable energy resources and their practical affirmation – environmental protection". This article supports the initiation
of systematic education and learning for integral
sustainability and sustainable development in Croatia and
offers an outline of contents which would in the Croatian
sociocultural and developmental milieu be historically
adequate and up-to-date.

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Hrčak ID:

17689

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/17689

Publication date:

30.6.2005.

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