Education for Sustainable Development - Training the Young Generation for the Future

ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) can generate changes in the mentality of people, enabling them to create a safer, healthier and wealthier world, thus improving the quality of life. ESD represents a holistic interdisciplinary learning strategy, based on values, critical thinking, cross-methodological approaches, decision making policies that intends to assist young people in dealing with an increasingly changing and challenging world. Hence, ESD challenges us to adopt new attitudes and practices that will help us tackle the future. Educational process should be such that even the weakest students be educated in a manner that their actions, present or future, pose no danger to society or even to themselves. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.