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Chapter 5
SDG 4 Quality Education
Governing Education for Sustainable
Development: Towards Inclusive and Equitable
Quality Education
Isabel B. Franco and Ellen Derbyshire
Abstract This chapter provides a contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable
Development Goal 4, Quality Education (SDG 4), through analysing stakeholder
partnerships and collaboration for the implementation of Education for Sustainable
Development (ESD). It argues that a better understanding of limiting and fostering
factors preventing greater collaboration for ESD is required in order to meet the
targets set by SDG 4 which advocates for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education.
This chapter provides a multilevel governance analysis (global, national and institutional) on ESD and key stakeholders’ perceptions on limiting and fostering factors
in collaborative governance for ESD. This manuscript also increases our understanding of whether ESD policy developed at the international level can be imagined at the national, institutional and local levels and highlights the factors involved
in collaboration for ESD. This hopefully helps us understand how to develop rhetoric that can advance from policy to impact. Conclusions drawn from these analyses
highlight key inconsistencies and gaps that resulted from incompatible perspectives
and motivations for realizing ESD at all levels of governance.
I. B. Franco (*)
Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, Japan
Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia
e-mail: connect@drisabelfranco.com
E. Derbyshire
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Business School, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
e-mail: ellen.derbyshire@uq.net.au
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
I. B. Franco et al. (eds.), Actioning the Global Goals for Local Impact, Science
for Sustainable Societies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9927-6_5
Chapter 5
SDG 4 Quality Education
Governing Education for Sustainable
Development: Towards Inclusive and Equitable
Quality Education
Isabel B. Franco and Ellen Derbyshire
Abstract This chapter provides a contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable
Development Goal 4, Quality Education (SDG 4), through analysing stakeholder
partnerships and collaboration for the implementation of Education for Sustainable
Development (ESD). It argues that a better understanding of limiting and fostering
factors preventing greater collaboration for ESD is required in order to meet the
targets set by SDG 4 which advocates for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education.
This chapter provides a multilevel governance analysis (global, national and institutional) on ESD and key stakeholders’ perceptions on limiting and fostering factors
in collaborative governance for ESD. This manuscript also increases our understanding of whether ESD policy developed at the international level can be imagined at the national, institutional and local levels and highlights the factors involved
in collaboration for ESD. This hopefully helps us understand how to develop rhetoric that can advance from policy to impact. Conclusions drawn from these analyses
highlight key inconsistencies and gaps that resulted from incompatible perspectives
and motivations for realizing ESD at all levels of governance.
I. B. Franco (*)
Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo, Japan
Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia
e-mail: connect@drisabelfranco.com
E. Derbyshire
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Business School, The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
e-mail: ellen.derbyshire@uq.net.au