Teaching and learning for a sustainable future supports the Education for Sustainable Development and Global Development which is designed to embed values of sustainable living within the modern, and changing world that we live into the National Curriculum and school ethos.The ESDCG promotes global awareness which underpins A Common Understanding for Welsh schools. Education for sustainable development and global citizenship has an important part within the curriculum and included within the publication Making the Most of Learning.
The UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) came into force in 1989 given rights of entitlement within 42 articles that recognize basic human rights to children worldwide and it underpins all Welsh policy today. Although primarily concerned with basic human rights for children all around the world it could be viewed as not making a difference in some countries with children and adults living in absolute poverty in conditions that we would consider unbearable. Rights Respecting Schools follow the ethos of the UNCRC allowing cross curricular meaning to schools ethos, PSE, and is designed to allow each child's talents to be developed fully. Therefore each child will be active and successful in their learning journey.
Reflecting on the UNCRC, Csikszentmihalyi explains that in countries where there are no schools and books, memes are therefore not introduced into that culture and creativity is thwarted by the countries poverty. If WG succeed in promoting STEM subjects to budding scientists that could increase our own creativity thus may help countries in need. This, in theory may assist countries in need to build on their own education thus introducing memes to countries in poverty which in turn should boost their creativity for sustainability independently. As Csikszentmenhalyi states "Creativity is the engine that drives cultural evolution." (pg.7)
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