<p><font color="#33711E"><strong>Policy, Research and Capacity Building for Educational Innovation for Sustainable Development</strong></font></p>
Regional Seminar
NIER-APEID UNESCO Bangkok
Tokyo (Japan)
27 July-3 August 2004
The Regional Seminar was planned as a follow up to the NIER-UNESCO-APEID Strategic Development Meeting (February 2004) and the Mobile Training Team (MTT) Evaluation Meeting (March 2004), both activities implemented within the APEID 7th Programme Cycle, 2002-2007, adopted by its Member States, and supported by the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan.
The APEID Strategic Development Meeting (SDM) unanimously recommended the ‘mainstreaming of ESD into APEID programme actions’. Specifically, “innovations to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)” were to be promoted as the central theme of APEID; and APEID was to organise conceptual/ policy/ curricular frameworks for ESD, focusing on innovations oriented at sustainable human development, with the involvement of policy-makers and experts from different backgrounds; and National Commissions for UNESCO were to be responsible for taking the lead in making in-country mechanisms to promote ESD within APEID. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) constitute the basic core of the ESD movement.
The seminar brought together policy-makers and experts from different academic disciplines to: (i) share information/experiences on policies and research related to education for sustainable development; (ii) identify research studies/findings and exemplars of ‘best practices in environmental education as a component of education for sustainable development’ in various educational areas (school management, curriculum development, training of teachers, development of teaching-learning materials, systematic evaluation of learning achievement in ESD, localised actions and challenges in implementing DESD activities); (iii) discuss policy issues and strategies for educational innovation and research aimed at contributing to the preparatory work for the DESD 2005-2014; (iv) develop research-based visions and agenda of ESD in regional/national development contexts and strengthen their relevance to the APEID programme; and (v) strengthen partnerships and networking for broad international partnership in policy formulation in implementing the Decade of ESD.
Final Report of the Regional Seminar