Climate Change Education in Ukrainian
Universities: Addressing Transformative
Education for Sustainable Development
Oleksandra Khalaim and Shepherd Urenje
1 Introduction
As a society living in an emerging and highly dynamic global environment, we
not only require future thinking but also effective enablers to transform our thinking
practices. From a transformative perspective, the purpose of education for sustainable
development (ESD) is to ensure that students are educated in a way that enables them
to act for a sustainable future (Hopkins 2013). In many global reports focusing on
the educational response to the issues, there is agreement that sustainability requires
a reorientation of education and training, including higher education.
Thus, ESD focuses on rethinking how appropriate and successful educational
practices may change and transform society. This social transformation often involves
the emergence of new forms of human activities that sustain viable livelihoods.
Biesta (2013) argues that, besides focusing on knowledge and socialization, one
important goal of education is to focus on the emancipation of students from predetermined ways of thinking and being and the responsibility that follows with it and
one pedagogical model that deals with this subjectification processes is transformative learning. That is why ESD allocates a wide range of participatory, experiential,
critical and open-ended methodologies for teaching and learning. In this perspective, Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development (CCESD) ensures that
education systems are prepared for current and emerging challenges, are responsive
to them, serving at the same time as a proactive force in moving the sustainable
development agenda forward (Mochizuki and Bryan 2015).
O. Khalaim · S. Urenje (B)
Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development, Uppsala
University—Campus Gotland, 621 67 Visby, Sweden
e-mail: shepherd.urenje@swedesd.uu.se
O. Khalaim
e-mail: oleksandra.khalaim@swedesd.uu.se
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_25
383
Universities: Addressing Transformative
Education for Sustainable Development
Oleksandra Khalaim and Shepherd Urenje
1 Introduction
As a society living in an emerging and highly dynamic global environment, we
not only require future thinking but also effective enablers to transform our thinking
practices. From a transformative perspective, the purpose of education for sustainable
development (ESD) is to ensure that students are educated in a way that enables them
to act for a sustainable future (Hopkins 2013). In many global reports focusing on
the educational response to the issues, there is agreement that sustainability requires
a reorientation of education and training, including higher education.
Thus, ESD focuses on rethinking how appropriate and successful educational
practices may change and transform society. This social transformation often involves
the emergence of new forms of human activities that sustain viable livelihoods.
Biesta (2013) argues that, besides focusing on knowledge and socialization, one
important goal of education is to focus on the emancipation of students from predetermined ways of thinking and being and the responsibility that follows with it and
one pedagogical model that deals with this subjectification processes is transformative learning. That is why ESD allocates a wide range of participatory, experiential,
critical and open-ended methodologies for teaching and learning. In this perspective, Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development (CCESD) ensures that
education systems are prepared for current and emerging challenges, are responsive
to them, serving at the same time as a proactive force in moving the sustainable
development agenda forward (Mochizuki and Bryan 2015).
O. Khalaim · S. Urenje (B)
Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development, Uppsala
University—Campus Gotland, 621 67 Visby, Sweden
e-mail: shepherd.urenje@swedesd.uu.se
O. Khalaim
e-mail: oleksandra.khalaim@swedesd.uu.se
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_25
383