What does LfS stand for?

9789086862030 Learning for sustainability in times of accelerating change.

The NAP proposes a transformative approach to education, with the stated aim of "achieving a culture of sustainability in which teaching and learning for sustainability are reinforced by continuous improvement in the sustainability of campus management" (Department of the Environment Water Heritage and the Arts, 2009, p.

It is just one part, albeit a major strand, of a concerted research project under way that is being funded principally by the Department of the Environment and Heritage to address an inadequate body of knowledge about effective environmental education and learning for sustainability across business, industry, community, schools and tertiary education.

Tooth (2008) found that when he applied a social ecology approach in values education by using a "nesting systems model", that is, a model that focused on using a mix of environmental narrative and deep reflection to create attentive and emotional connections between self, others and place, then learning for sustainability occurred.

38) a primary school teacher in London, held the following world view: "Developed" western nations, however, remain ideologically distanced from sustainability, promoting burgeoning consumption and limitless economic growth as the primacy for "development"; their educational institutions accordingly feeding young people into this flawed system; completely inhospitable to the principles of learning for sustainability.