Education to achieve sustainability-oriented development

Authors

  • Ubiratan D’Ambrosio

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v15i0.11895

Keywords:

educação, desenvolvimento e sustentabilidade, valores éticos, transdisciplinaridade e complexidade, education, development and sustainability, ethical values, transdisciplinarity and complexity

Abstract

Promoting proper Education so that society can seek and achieve sustainability-oriented development,
in the broadest sense, is without any doubt an essentially political matter. It is, above all, a topic that
leads to the following questions: how frequently, with which attitude, with which research and actions,
can Academia suggest ways to that end? This article shows that the answer depends on recognizing
the relationship between knowledge systems and human values. In general terms, one can say that this
kind of Education, aiming to think ethical values and transdisciplinary knowledge at the same time, is
ultimately what could be called Education for Peace – that is to say, a path leading the human being to a
state of real conscience, only possible when both human knowledge and behavior are solidary.

Published

2007-06-28

How to Cite

D’Ambrosio, U. (2007). Education to achieve sustainability-oriented development. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 15. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v15i0.11895