Title: Chemical Education and
Sustainable Development, International Conference on
Coordinator(s): N.
Tarasova and P.D. Sarkivov
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Completion Date: 2004 - Project
completed
Objective:
To disseminate experience in achieving the goals of education for
sustainable development through the review of the implementation
of recommendations of Agenda XXI in chemical
education, to innovate the style of chemical education, to increase
the involvement of educators to the sustainable development agenda.
Progress:
This project is aimed to disseminate new educational means and new
curricula developments in the field of the education for sustainable
development. Chemical education can be effectively used for this
purpose because chemistry as a fundamental science and as a scientific
basis for a variety of technologies in different branches of industry
is deeply involved in the progress of modern civilization. New generation
of high school textbooks has been produced in different parts of
the world (Chemistry in the Community, Salters' Advanced Chemistry),
and a lot of public interest was expressed concerning the national
and international peculiarities of their application. The project
will give an opportunity to review education kits, curriculum development,
WEB sites and software, educational games specially focused on sustainable
development education, as it was recommended by the Commission on
Sustainable Development (CSD) of the UN. There are many chemical
educators, well trained in environmental issues, who would like
to move further and to make the contribution to the education for
sustainable development.
Link to Agenda XXI
(in Russian) www.ecoline.ru/agenda21
(in English) www.regione.liguria.it/inglese/frameset.htm
Information about sustainable development www.un.org
(all languages)
Progress:
A conference was organized in Moscow on 11-13 October 2000,
and will cover the following topics: