A consortium of Indian institutes, that includes Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education and Research (BVIEER),Centre for Environment Education (CEE), ministry of environment and forests, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and the Energy and Resources Institute ( TERI), have been identified to guide and coordinate the training programme 'Education for sustainability training for trainers' in the country.
The training, which is a four country programme (India, Mexico, South Africa and Germany), is funded by the Federal Republic of Germany. The first workshop was held at BVIEER, Pune, between August 23 and 27. The idea is to understand and introduce education for sustainability development into the education process.
Under this programme, school teachers, principals and NGOs in the field of environment will be trained to impart training on education for sustainability and to go beyond environment. Thirty-six trainers across the country underwenting the five-day training currently on in BVIEER
.
The trainers were from states such as
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Hyderabad, Chennai, Orissa, Kolkata, Delhi and Goa.
Kranti Yardi, faculty, BVIEER, told TOI that the United Nations has dedicated this decade to education for sustainability. Earlier, the stress was on environment education. But now it is on sustainability education.
"The pillars of education sustainability are based on environment, social equity and economics. Education sustainability goes beyond environment," she said.
Citing an example, Yardi said "when we talk about water resources, it is also related with social and economic equity. In case of water issue, the usage is less for underprivileged and more among the higher class. The other issue is economic use. One should not use water resource in unsustainable ways
.''
"This is the pilot project to understand not just environment but also sustainability. Country specific design training modules have been prepared,'' Yardi added.
Erach Bharucha, director of BVIEER, and one of the members of the expert group formed for this training programme, said "As of today, our knowledge of environment education is based on the NCERT curriculum. Now, we want to introduce education sustainability in the education process.''
As part of the programme, young trainers will be sent to Germany for training. The five-day programme included understanding sustainable development, education for sustainable development using various activities and bring about whole school for education of sustainable development, among students, teachers, principals, staffs and parents. On the fifth day on August 27, it will look into how to evaluate and monitor this programme.
Bharucha said, "we wanted the whole school to participate and understand about sustainable development through this programme. There should be involvement from students to teachers, from stafff to parents. They will take up various activities such as rain water harvesting, vermi-composting, waste management, among others,'' he added.BOX
Three components of the programme:
* Expert group as the guiding force
* Programme for young people
* Training of trainers.
Country invovled:
* India
* Mexico
* South Africa
* Germany
Fourty four trainers:
Are from states like Maharashtra, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir Hyderabad, Chennai, Orissa, Kolkata, Delhi and Goa, among others.
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