Whole Schools with the Whole Society for the Whole Planet: From Environmental Education to Education for Sustainable Development in Hungary (original) (raw)

Environmental Education, 2019

Abstract

Parallel to the global tendencies, Hungary has also shifted its environmental educational practices into direction of education for sustainable development for more than a decade. The chapter briefly presents how the Hungarian environmental educational context is embedded into the global processes and highlights the main focus of its development, mainly the dissemination of whole school approach and collaboration between schools and other stakeholders for education for sustainable development. Some examples of good practices give an insight into the realisation of the above-mentioned approaches. The Hungarian Eco-school Programme is an excellent example of how an internationally initiated programme could be adapted and scaled up from a 40-school project to a nationwide programme. The history of the Hungarian Eco-schools proves that openness for changes, encouragement and support of newcomers aligned with the focus on the result of the work of schools and teacher instead of criticising their weaknesses, are the key element to attract the significant proportion of them into movement aiming at to develop the quality of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) nationwide. Next step of widening the collaboration for ESD is to make solid bridges between scientific and pedagogical work by propagating community-based collaborative research. This is the way to form a community working for the realisation of ESD from as many stakeholders as possible. Only this kind of interconnected work of different groups could ensure the survival of communities as locally as globally.

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