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Zygmunt, Tomasz – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2016
The aim of the present paper is to awake awareness of the term "sustainable development" and show that the very term is not understood in a unilateral way. A discrepancy of perception and thus understanding of the notion of sustainability blurs its meaning. Numerous scholars and researchers use the term sustainable or sustainability to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Definitions, Scholarship
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Switala, Eugeniusz – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2015
The aim of the paper is to present the results of the research on highlighting values related to sustainable development in Poland and Latvia by secondary school teachers and to compare two models by the use of action research. The research is presented as a process of identifying values mainly from the point of view of social development which is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Switala, Eugeniusz – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2015
The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), which is coming to an end, will offer all kinds of summaries and reflections on this issue. The aim of this paper, strictly related with the goals of the DESD, is to answer the following questions: (1) "Is the Polish school ready to provide values education?"; (2)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values Education, Educational Practices, Readiness
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Czapla, Malgorzata; Berlinska, Agnieszka – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2011
The aim of this article is to present an analysis of formal educational documents in the context of the sustainable development notion. This goal was realised by an analysis of the National Curriculum Framework documents from 2002 in comparison with the newest document from 2008. In addition, seven teaching programmes were analysed. On the grounds…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Educational Strategies, National Curriculum, Computational Linguistics