EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND GREEN TRANSFORMATION OF THE EU

Abstract

Based on a review of professional literature and documents (UN and UNESCO international documents, strategic documents of the Republic of Croatia), scientific literature (social ecology, interdisciplinary literature) and using a hermeneutic approach as well as analysis and comparison of available secondary data, this paper first presents and analyses the concept of EDS and then examines the issue of its implementation and representation at different levels of formal education in Croatia (first in the pre-school and school system and then in the higher education system). Finally, the results of the analysis are presented and the discrepancy between policy recommendations and strategies and practise, i.e. the implementation of CE, EDC and ESD in the Croatian educational context, is highlighted, as well as the need for changes in teacher training and the need to change or harmonise the existing educational programmes with the goals of the European “green transition”.