Teaching Concepts of Sustainable Development to Students

According  to  the  OERP  Public  and  International  Relations, deputy  director general  of  Bureau  of  Compiling  Primary  and  Theoretical  Secondary Textbooks, Yadollah  Rahbarinejhad  delivered  a  report  on  the  activities  of the  OERP  in  respect  of  sustainable  development  in  a  meeting  attended  by representatives  of  public  and  private  organizations  at  the  ministerial  bureau . He  stated, "planning  curriculum  is  basically  a  developmental measure that paves the way for both individual and social development from every  aspect.  In  this  belief, comprehensive  development  of  students  has been  chosen  as  the  main  and  common  approach  for  all  curricula. Therefore, textbooks  are  compiled  to  reach  this  goal. At  the  same time,  we believe that textbook is only one component in the large scope of attaining development  and  its  effectiveness  requires  promoting  human  resources  and other elements in the process of education. In other words, comprehensive development  requires  comprehensive  measures. Anyway, in  the  textbooks  of  different  levels  of  education, students  are  provided  with  the  instances  of  sustainable  development  as a  key  concept  in  four  categories  of  social, cultural, environmental and economic development." He then listed some topics relating  to  sustainable  development  that  appear  in  the  textbooks  as follow:

Economic  development

Peace  and  human  security

Social  and  environmental  responsibilities

Geography, geographers  and  sustainable  development

Life  expectancy

Social  justice

Human  rights, housing, social  justice,  poverty …

Social  justice-poverty-equal  opportunities

Regional  economic  development  and  eliminating  discrimination  in  the regions

Cultural  diversity  and  respecting  diversities

Greenhouse  gas  emissions

Pollution  of  water  and  air

Proper  use  of  renewable  energies

Let's  use  energy  more  properly

Agricultural  products: From  production  to  consumption

Peace  and  nonviolence

Prevention and  reduction  of  disasters

Environmental  pollutions

Food, hunger  and  malnutrition

Drugs  education

Sustainable  cultural  tourism

Cultural  resources  and  heritage

Resources  of  water  and  soil

Consumption

Empathy  and  cooperation  in  incidents

Environmental  responsibility

Person-environment  reciprocity

Economic  and  social  difficulties  of  underdevelopment

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