Educating for Cultural Sustainability

Abstract

<p>As we hurtle into the twenty-first century our changing world places ever-increasing responsibilities on educators. To better focus the intent of this AIJRE Special Issue, <i>Educating for Cultural Sustainability</i>, we need to consider the connection between culture and sustainability, and the role played by education.</p> <p>The importance of sustainability, decision-making and acting in the present to ensure that resources are still available in the future, has been well accepted since before the turn of the twenty-first century. Equally important is the need for educators to take a sustainability worldview, "<i>seeing and engaging with the world through a lens of sustainability</i>" (Nodlet, 2015, p. 10). Taking such a view into learning situations helps our future citizens to better appreciate the impact on others, both now and in the future, of their decisions and behaviour, and thus enact a sustainable lifestyle to better preserve the finite resources that are available.</p>