The Five Pillars of Education

Del Rosario, Glenda T.

Malig, Kimberly Anne P.
Quiazon, Pauline Joviene D.



Education for Sustainable
Development (ESD)
is a vision in education that aims to
create a sustainable future by
empowering the people
Education for Sustainable
Development:
1. Concerns all levels of education as well as
social contexts;
2. Allows for the acquisition of skills,
capacities, values, and knowledge required
to achieve sustainable development;
3. Fosters responsible citizens and promotes
democracy ; &
Education for Sustainable
Development:
4. Allows individuals to survive, develop
their full capacities, live and work in
dignity, participate fully in development,
improve the quality of ones life, make
informed decisions, and continue
learning by providing the essential
learning tools needed to achieve the
abovementioned.
United Nations of Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural
Organizations (UNESCO)
(1) improving the quality of basic education,
(2) reorienting educational programs,
(3) developing public understanding and
awareness, and
(4) providing training.


Learning to know
(Acquiring instruments of understanding)
Objectives:
Learn to learn
Acquire a taste for learning throughout life
Develop critical thinking
Acquire tools for understanding the world
Understand sustainability concepts and
issues

Learning to know
(Acquiring instruments of understanding)
Education for Sustainable Development:
Recognizes the nature of the concept
sustainability;
Reflects the needs of societies;
Acknowledges that fulfilling local needs
often has international effects; &
Addresses content, context, global issues,
and local priorities.
Learning-to-Learn skills
Learning to read with comprehension
Listening
Observing
Asking questions
Data gathering
Note taking
Accessing, processing, and selecting
information
Teachers roles:
Facilitator
Catalyst
Monitor
Evaluator

Learning to do
(Act creatively in ones environment)
Objectives:
Be an actor as well as thinker
Act on global and local sustainable
development issues
Acquire technical and professional training
Apply learned knowledge in daily life
Act creatively and responsibly in ones
environment









Figure 2. Personal and Work Values for Learning to Do
(Source: UNESCO-APNIEVE as cited by Vega, V., 2006)
Learning to do
(Act creatively in ones environment)
Education for Sustainable Development:
Is locally relevant and culturally
appropriate;
Must become a concrete reality for all our
daily decisions and actions; &
Is about helping to build a sustainable and
safe world for everyone.

Learning to live togetherin peace
and harmony
(Participate in and cooperate with other
people in all human activities)
Objectives:
Participate and cooperate with others in
increasingly pluralistic and multicultural
societies
Develop an understanding of other people
and their histories, traditions, beliefs,
values, and cultures
Learning to live together
(Participate in and cooperate with other
people in all human activities)
Objectives:
Tolerate, respect, welcome, embrace, and
even celebrate difference and diversity in
people
Respond constructively to the cultural
diversity and economic disparity found around
the world
Be able to cope with situations of tension,
exclusion, conflict, violence, and terrorism

Social and Emotional Learning
involves the teaching of a wide range
of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and
behaviors to enable us to interact with
others in a just, equitable, and
empathetic manner.
Figure 3. Learning to Live Together: The Asia-Pacific Perspective
Schematic Diagram of Core and Related Values Needed
To Live Together in Peace and Harmony
(Source: UNESCO-APNIEVE as cited by Vega, V., 2006)
Learning to live together in peace
and harmony
(Participate in and cooperate with other
people in all human activities)
Education for Sustainable Development:
Builds capacity for community-based
decision making, social tolerance,
environmental stewardship, adaptable
workforce and quality of life.

Learning to be
(Develop ones personality and act with
greater autonomy, judgment, and
personal responsibility)
Objectives:
See oneself as the main actor in defining
positive outcomes for the future
Encourage discovery and experimentation
Acquire universally shared values

Learning to be
(Develop ones personality and act with
greater autonomy, judgment, and
personal responsibility)
Objectives:
Develop ones personality, self-identity,
self-knowledge, and self-fulfillment
Act with greater autonomy, judgment, and
personal responsibility












Figure 4: The Core Values, Learning To Be Fully Human
(Source: UNESCO-APNIEVE as cited by Vega, V., 2006)
According to Paulo Freire,
humanization is mans ultimate
vocation and destiny. This can be
accomplished through conscientization
which is a process of recognizing the
contradictions existing within oneself
and in society and of gradually being
able to bring out about personal and
social transformation.
Learning to be
Education for Sustainable Development:
Builds on the principles and values that
underline sustainable development;
Deals with the well-being of all three
realms of sustainability environment,
society, and economy; &
Contributes to a persons complete
development: mind and body, intelligence,
sensitivity, aesthetic appreciation and
spirituality.
Universal Aims of Education:
Towards a scientific humanism
Creativity
Towards social commitment
Towards complete man


Learning to transform one
self and society
(Knowledge, values, and skills
for transforming attitudes and
lifestyles)


Objectives:
Work toward a gender neutral, non-
discriminatory society
Develop the ability and will to integrate
sustainable lifestyle for ourselves and
others
Promotes behaviors and practices that
minimize our ecological footprint on the
world around us

Objectives:
Be respectful of the Earth and life in all its
diversity
Act to achieve social solidarity
Promote democracy in society where peace
prevails
Education for Sustainable
Development:
Integrates the values inherent in
sustainable development into all
aspect of learning;
Encourages changes in behavior to
create a more viable and fairer society
for everyone;

Education for Sustainable
Development:
Teaches people to reflect critically on
their own communities; &
Empowers people to assume
responsibility for creating and
enjoying a sustainable future.

References:
Vega, Violeta et al (2006). Social
dimensions of education. Quezon City:
Lori Mar Publishing.
UNESCO (2014). Education for
Sustainable Development 2005-2014.
Retrieved on June 12, 2014 from
menntuntilsjalfbaerni.weebly.com/