Sustainable Schools: seven propositions around young people’s motivations, interests and knowledge

Posted: 23 June 2010

This paper discusses the link between ESD and young people, and particularly brings the light the importance that should be placed on the promotion of ESD for young people, and how to do this correctly. The author is Professor William Scott, Professor of Education, Head of the 'Education and Sustainability' Research Programme and Director of the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment (CREE) at the University of Bath.

Policy and practice around sustainable schools, and ESD more generally, tends to be based around largely tacit assumptions about young people’s motivations, interests and knowledge. In this brief paper I shall examine a number of these, and the implications for the enhancement of the learning we shall all need to do. I start from the notion that it is learning that matters above anything else.

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Sustainable Schools: seven propositions around young people’s motivations, interests and knowledge