It is locally relevant and culturally appropriate; It is based on the needs, perceptions and local conditions but recognizes that meet local needs often has international impacts and consequences; Concerning the, non-formal and informal formal education;
Accept the evolving nature of the concept of sustainability;
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These characteristics of ESD can be implemented in a number of ways so that the resulting ESD program reflects the environmental, social, cultural and unique economic conditions of each place. Furthermore, ESD increases civil capacity to improve and enrich society by combining, non-formal and informal formal education.
Because education is a fundamental human right that is recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and is also the most powerful tool for human development (Oxfam International) catalyst. Despite this reality it is far from a complete schooling and literacy. Currently 125 million children never go to school (mostly in sub-Saharan Africa), and 150 million drop out before completing four years of education and without having acquired basic skills. Moreover …show more content…
It says while we live in a world or global "village" because of the dynamics of globalization of trade in general (first material, manufactured goods, capital, technology, information) and production processes (international division of phases production), development of technologies and means of transport, and the role of the media. These changes make the necessary skills to join the process of modernization, and that education should create, are changing. Thus in many countries the skills acquired by much of the population are becoming obsolete or dysfunctional in the short term. And I mean both personal skills and abilities of citizens to function in everyday life as the powers of the company to join or stay in the world of production or market. It is not enough that a country has a lot of manpower to be competitive, it is also necessary to be qualified. Each citizen is beginning to ask an effort to build its own qualification, but without incurring any guarantee of continued employment or find a new one. At the same time it imposes forget professional knowledge and experience they had always been like a personal insurance. That is, in the process of globalization and economic transformation, the human element, the worker, takes center stage because it requires more training, but also feel more vulnerable to changes in the organization and needs of work and the companies. That