Course Contents

Course Title: sustainable development and Education Course Code: Maj-II/Edu-402 Credit Hours: 03 Learning Outcomes: After completing this course the student will be able to:  Understand the basic concepts of sustainable development  Recognize the challenges of sustainable development  Identify the opportunities and limits in meeting these challenges  Apply the concepts of sustainable development in life  Develop an awareness in the society for the sustainable development Course outline: Sustainable Development: An Introduction  Sustainable development  Basic concepts underlying sustainability: development, well-being and sustainable development  Integrated and future-oriented views  Assessment and indicators of sustainable development  Principle of sustainable development  Areas: Economic, social and environmental sustainable development  Obstacles, problems and issues  Past, present and future: Challenges for the next 50 years Overview  Where are the problems?  Significant gains but at costs that can’t be sustained  Link between institutional quality and inclusiveness: voice and access to assets  Improving livelihoods on fragile lands  Transforming institutions on agricultural lands  Getting the best from cities  Strengthening national coordination  Solving global problems and addressing local concerns  Pathways to a sustainable future Managing a Broader folio of Assets  Range of Assets: human, natural, human made, knowledge and social  Why the need to manage a broader folio of assets  Tradeoffs and sustainable development  Overused and underprovided assets  Correcting the overuse and under provision of important assets Institutions for maintaining sustainable development  Institutions coordinating human behavior  Market players  Government  Civil society  Institutions protecting assets  Piking-up signals, balancing interests and implementing decisions  Overcoming barriers to coordination  Promoting inclusiveness  Catalysts for change Social capital  Impact of social capital at micro-level, intermediate and macro level  Underling causal mechanics and relationships  Poverty and social exclusion  Quality of governance and civic engagement  Personal well-being, health and life satisfaction  Job search  Economic performance  Standard of achievement in school/adult literacy  Crime and social deviance Suggested Reading: 1. World Development Report 2003 World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2003. 2. Managing a Broader Portfolio of Assets, World Development Report 2003. 3. Institutions for Sustainable Development. World Development Report 2003. 4. The Policy implications of social cities 5. The Challenges of Sustainability 6. Hand-outs

Course Learning Outcomes

After completing this course the student will be able to:  Understand the basic concepts of sustainable development  Recognize the challenges of sustainable development  Identify the opportunities and limits in meeting these challenges  Apply the concepts of sustainable development in life  Develop an awareness in the society for the sustainable development