Sustainability Education: A Pedagogical Responsibility That Aims to Create Inclusive and Sustainable Environments

Abstract

Regarding education for sustainability, education is increasingly being called upon to enter into dialogue with European policies. Several international and national school programmes, such as the Eco (Green) Schools programme and the UNESCO network of schools, seem to be moving in this direction. These pro-grammes place responsibility towards oneself, others and the planet as a fun-damental factor in the acquisition of a sustainable way of acting. This is evident in a number of European documents, such as the Learning for the Green Tran-sition and Sustainable Development, which emphasises the need, particularly for school education, to place the development of sustainability knowledge, skills and competencies within a dimension of learning time and space for car-rying out activities that relate to sustainability. This contribution aims to reflect on sustainability education for students in secondary schools, to enhance the creation of community networks, understood as those contexts dedicated to the promotion of educational practices, inside and/or outside the school, fo-cused on the green transition.