Education for Sustainability Grants Program 2008-09

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.

Objective

The objective of the Education for Sustainability Grants Program is to facilitate changes in community attitudes and behaviour in support of sustainability, through education for sustainability.

What is education for sustainability?

Education for Sustainability develops knowledge, skills and values that promote action and behaviour in support of a sustainable future. It aims to equip individuals, organisations and communities to deal effectively with the complex and inter-related environmental, social and economic challenges they encounter in their personal and working lives, in a way that protects the interests of current and future generations.

Education for Sustainability acknowledges the need to use learning approaches that help individuals, organisations and communities to explore sustainability and build skills that enable change, such as critical and systems thinking, mentoring and facilitation, visioning, genuine participation in decision making, action learning and action research, and the formation of partnerships for change.