Mirian Vilela
I am interested in contributing to re-thinking and reorienting the purpose of education to highlight its role as an instrument of social transformation and values clarification. I have a particular interest in working in the intersection of sustainability, values and education. I use the Earth Charter as the main ethical reference and instrument to my work.
Address: Earth Charter International Center on Education for Sustainable Development at the University for Peace
San Jose, Costa Rica
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San Jose, Costa Rica
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JESD is a forum for academics and practitioners to share and critique innovations in thinking and practice in the emerging field of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). A peer reviewed international journal, JESD aims at global readership and is published twice a year.
This issue’s reference is: Journal of Education for Sustainable Development. Clugston, R and Vilela, M (guest editors). Vol 4. No. 2. September 2010.
The guest editors for this special issue are: Rick Clugston, from Earth Charter US, and Mirian Vilela, ECI Executive Director. The content is as follows:
EDITORIAL: Kartikeya V. Sarabhai: An Ethical Framework for a Sustainable World
INTRODUCTION: Rick Clugston: Earth Charter Education for Sustainable Ways of Living
OPINION ESSAYS
Swee-Hin, (S.H. TOH) and Virginia Floresca Cawagas: Peace Education, ESD and the Earth Charter: Interconnections and Synergies
Javier Reyes Ruiz: Dangers Facing the Earth Charter
Noel Preston: The Why and What of ESD: A Rationale for Earth Charter Education (and Naming Some of Its Difficulties)
Yunhua Liu and Alicia Constable: Earth Charter, ESD and Chinese Philosophies.
Moacir Gadotti: Reorienting Education Practices towards Sustainability
Stephen Sterling: Living in the Earth: Towards an Education for Our Time
DESCRIPTIVE REPORTS
Edgar Miranda. Going Global in Arlington, Virginia
Alicia Jiménez-Elizondo. CREADS, A Teacher Training Course on ESD in Costa Rica
Rose Marie Inojosa. Promoting the Earth Charter in São Paulo’s Municipal Education System
Linda D. Hill: Forging Inclusive Solutions: Experiential Earth Charter Education
Mike Sheehan and Jaana Laitinen. The Earth Charter Goes Interactive and Live with e-GLO: Using New Media to Train Youth Leaders in Sustainability on Both Sides of the Digital Divide
Sofia Savelava, Dmitry Savelau, and Marina Bakhnova Cary: Practicing ESD at School: Integration of Formal and Nonformal Education Methods Based on the Earth Charter (Belarusian Experience)
Waverli Maia Matarazzo-Neuberger and Vicente Manzione Filho: The Methodist University Sustainable Program: Using the Earth Charter to Mainstream Sustainability
Reiner Mathar: Practices of Integrating the Earth Charter into Education Activities in German Federal States of Hessen and Rheinland-Pfalz
Hiro Sakurai: Make a World of Difference: Hearing Each Other, Healing the Earth
STUDENT RESEARCH
Franklin Chamda Ngassa. Using EC-Assess to Assess a Small Biofuels Project in Honduras
JESD is a forum for academics and practitioners to share and critique innovations in thinking and practice in the emerging field of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). A peer reviewed international journal, JESD aims at global readership and is published twice a year.
This issue’s reference is: Journal of Education for Sustainable Development. Clugston, R and Vilela, M (guest editors). Vol 4. No. 2. September 2010.
The guest editors for this special issue are: Rick Clugston, from Earth Charter US, and Mirian Vilela, ECI Executive Director. The content is as follows:
EDITORIAL: Kartikeya V. Sarabhai: An Ethical Framework for a Sustainable World
INTRODUCTION: Rick Clugston: Earth Charter Education for Sustainable Ways of Living
OPINION ESSAYS
Swee-Hin, (S.H. TOH) and Virginia Floresca Cawagas: Peace Education, ESD and the Earth Charter: Interconnections and Synergies
Javier Reyes Ruiz: Dangers Facing the Earth Charter
Noel Preston: The Why and What of ESD: A Rationale for Earth Charter Education (and Naming Some of Its Difficulties)
Yunhua Liu and Alicia Constable: Earth Charter, ESD and Chinese Philosophies.
Moacir Gadotti: Reorienting Education Practices towards Sustainability
Stephen Sterling: Living in the Earth: Towards an Education for Our Time
DESCRIPTIVE REPORTS
Edgar Miranda. Going Global in Arlington, Virginia
Alicia Jiménez-Elizondo. CREADS, A Teacher Training Course on ESD in Costa Rica
Rose Marie Inojosa. Promoting the Earth Charter in São Paulo’s Municipal Education System
Linda D. Hill: Forging Inclusive Solutions: Experiential Earth Charter Education
Mike Sheehan and Jaana Laitinen. The Earth Charter Goes Interactive and Live with e-GLO: Using New Media to Train Youth Leaders in Sustainability on Both Sides of the Digital Divide
Sofia Savelava, Dmitry Savelau, and Marina Bakhnova Cary: Practicing ESD at School: Integration of Formal and Nonformal Education Methods Based on the Earth Charter (Belarusian Experience)
Waverli Maia Matarazzo-Neuberger and Vicente Manzione Filho: The Methodist University Sustainable Program: Using the Earth Charter to Mainstream Sustainability
Reiner Mathar: Practices of Integrating the Earth Charter into Education Activities in German Federal States of Hessen and Rheinland-Pfalz
Hiro Sakurai: Make a World of Difference: Hearing Each Other, Healing the Earth
STUDENT RESEARCH
Franklin Chamda Ngassa. Using EC-Assess to Assess a Small Biofuels Project in Honduras
En la segunda parte del estudio, se presentan 18 casos de centros educativos en Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Panamá que fueron seleccionados por los respectivos ministerios de educación y que ponen en práctica la educación para el desarrollo sostenible, cada una de acuerdo con su contexto y posibilidades.
La parte final del estudio hace un análisis por país de las experiencias sistematizadas, destacando algunas claves que se creen fundamentales para el éxito en la implementación de la EDS. Asimismo, dentro de este análisis, se identifican desafíos, lecciones aprendidas y recomendaciones para el fortalecimiento de estas prácticas, que aplican tanto para los centros educativos como para los ministerios de educación.
Aquí compartimos el resultado de un diálogo curioso entre nosotros, desde las propias experiencias de dos procesos educativos significativos, la Carta de la Tierra como un instrumento de educación en valores y el Aprendizaje Cooperativo de COOPEJOVO, mediados por la mirada y lecciones de nuestras prácticas educativas personales de muchos años. Comparto aquí el resultado de mi investigación doctoral en la que se identifica 7 elementos clave con los que se ha trabajado educación en valores con la Carta de la Tierra.
Este programa, intensivo de una semana tiene como objetivo aportar al liderazgo gubernamental, del sector empresarial y de la sociedad civil, elementos que contribuyan a actualizar y fortalecer su visión de un futuro sostenible y a su gestión efectiva de procesos de cambio y transformación organizacional y social.
It is organized and offered under the framework of the UNESCO Chair on Education for Sustainable Development with the Earth Charter.
Un curso intensivo facilitado por Mirian Vilela y Mark Hathaway entre el 1 y 5 de febrero, 2016 en San José, Costa Rica sobra la educación transformadora, la sostenibilidad y los valores de la Carta de la Tierra.
I was invited to join their advisory board and give a talk at the inauguration ceremony. Subsequently, this presentation titled “Sustainability and peace in education processes through the lens of the Earth Charter,” was incorporated in the first publication of the ISDL.
In this article, which is based on the presentation given, I talk about the sustainable development and peace nexus. I emphasize the importance to be aware and critical of our worldviews and to ask ourselves where these beliefs come from and what impact they have on our decisions and societies. And indicate that our cultural “borders” are socially constructed, which means that we can deconstruct them and construct something new.