A whole school approach to learning for environmental sustainability

  European Commission (EC)

 10/2023

 

This input paper has been prepared to inform a meeting of EU’s Working Group Schools - education for environmental sustainability. This paper asks the question: ‘what has been learnt from the adoption of whole school approaches to sustainability? It addresses this question by summarising the latest research and leading experiences with the objective of informing policy development and related activities. It also gives a focus a selected number of the subthemes identified in the survey which are of interest to Working Group members.

1. Introduction

2. Background: Policy Context

3. A whole school approach

4. The adoption of a whole school approach to sustainability

4.1 Key factors that influence the success of a whole school approach

4.2 Key challenges to a whole school approach

5. Interests of the Working Group Schools - education for environmental sustainability

5.1 A whole school approach at policy level

5.2 A whole school approach and student engagement

5.3 A whole school approach and leading change in schools

5.4 Awards and schemes supporting a whole school approach

5.5 The school as an example of living sustainably

5 Final observations

https://op.europa.eu/fr/publication-detail/-/publication/84105101-6c96-11ee-9220-01aa75ed71a1