Comment: Our education leaders need to prepare children for a future of global heating, climate migration, ecosystem erosion and resource depletion, writes Neil Selwyn
Australian schools will address a host of new challenges throughout the 2020s but perhaps the most pressing imperative will be establishing ecological responsibility and sustainability as central elements of how institutions are run.
One immediate challenge is to rethink how schools can be organised and run along sustainable lines. To be fair, environmental issues are already beginning to guide how new school buildings are being designed, made and maintained. However, there are many other aspects of school that lag well behind. In a few decades’ time, the expectation of "one laptop per child" or driving short distances in a fleet of SUVs will appear anachronistic and downright irresponsible. Put bluntly, schools, teachers and parents need to quickly curtail the environmental and ethical impacts of such over-consumption.At the same time, there is a pressing need to revitalise the Australian school curriculum to prepare students for the climate crisis.
There is also a long tradition of curriculum developments and schoolwide initiatives in the areas of environmental education and education for sustainable development. Australia’s education leaders and policymakers need to pay close attention to how these existing interventions might be scaled up as mainstream components of schooling.
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