‘지속가능한 개발’을 위한 환경교육은 지속가능한가?

Abstract

In recent years there has been a growing consensus that environmental education should be oriented around the idea of ‘sustainable development.' This paper examines that environmental education for ’sustainable development' really could be sustainable. I clarify some existing problems within this notion; 1) the ambiguities of sustainability, 2) the economic-centric combination between environment and development and 3) the unbalance of north and south nations. Also I examine some problems of education for sustainable development; 1) the limitation of sustainable development concept itself and it could not present any criticism and alternatives for the cause of modern ecological crisis 2) pursuing sustainability, education could be considered as a simplistic and instrumental way to sustainability 3) aiming universal and single goals is a form of totalitarian hyper-modernity in the light of post-modernism. So, ‘Environmental Education for sustainable development’ could not be sustainable. This paper suggests, too, some basis for sustainable environmental education: 1) Environmental education should be criticise modern civilization which gives rise to ecological crisis and suggest new ecological paradigm. 2) the meaning of sustainable development should be interpreted differently as social and cultural context. For this, the environmental education can not help being the political education. 3) Environmental education should be value education which deals with the recognition of nature and the relationship between human and nature. 4) It should bring the change of activity ultimately so that environmental education emphasize practical competence.