A PROCESS OF LEARNING HOW TO THINK IN TERMS OF "FOREVER" - UN DECADE OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (DESD) EXEGESIS.

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The world Commission on Environment and Development promoted the concept of 'sustainable development' in the late 1980s. Until then, environment and development tended to be thought as two distinct actions. Until the exegete rendering of education, education and development subsidiariness are thought as standardized and interchangeable denominations.
 
Theme 1: What is Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)?
United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UN DESD) delimitates education for sustainable development as;
 

• A catalytic process for social change that seeks to foster – through education, training, public awareness – the values, behavior and lifestyles required for a sustainable future.
• Thus, Sustainable Development can be seen not so much as a technical concept but as an educational one – not so much the end goal of government policy but the process of learning how to think in terms of ‘forever’.
• This means that ESD involves learning how to make decisions that balance and integrate the long-term future of the economy, the natural environment and the well-being of all communities, near and far, now and in the future.

DESD – UNESCO UN further foregrounds ESD as a visionary approach to education, that seeks to help people better understand the world in which they live and to face the future with hope and confidence, knowing that they can play a role in addressing the complex, and interdependent problems that threaten our future such as poverty, wasteful consumption, environmental degradation, urban decay, population growth, gender inequality, health, conflict and violation of human rights.
 
Exegesis to Theme 1: ENTRY
The mid 16th century Latin Education definability, definable terms and rules delimitate (set, mark, or draw the boundaries) educatio(n-), from the verb educare as;

• "A breeding, a bringing up, a rearing" or “I educate, I train’, colligated to the homonym ēdūcō, ("I lead forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect"), from ē- ("from, out of") and dūcō ("I lead, I conduct").

The aforementioned howling education etymology (I train, through breeding, bringing up, taking out and leading forth) predestinates the humanistic (human-centered) delineation of education by Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) Article 26 part 2.
 
“Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality…”
 
The “full development of the human personality” argument in the aforesaid UDHR is corroborated by the international resolution on development, A/RES/41/128 on the Right to development, UN. Thusly, the synthesis of education and development inclusion is a singleton from the following panoptic education stance;
Exegesis of Theme 1: What is Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)?
 

• “To foster the values, behavior and lifestyles required for a sustainable future through education.”
• Sustainable Development can be seen as an educational concept.
• Education should address development in a sustainable fashion: Education for sustainable development involves helping people to learn how to make decisions that balance and integrate the long-term future of the economy, knowing that they can play a role in addressing the complex, and interdependent problems that threaten the future of their natural environment and the well-being of the communities they live in.

To foster the values we reckon, perceive or think about in any and every particular way, to help develop, encourage and necessitate the natural behavioral science, skills and abilities required to produce solutions to the following especial problem specific domain, humanism, education is hardly the central purveyance than the one and only, matchless, unrivalled and nonpareil.
 
Education is almost not the charity shot to delimit the axiological necessaries of Sustainable Development, and what does sustainable development mean?
 
In the document “DESD at a glance” (UN DESD 2005 – 2014), “sustainable development means having a different vision of the world.”
To backdrop the general inclusive notion that values, behavior and lifestyles are important developmental desiderata via the education desideratum, is embracing the true meaning of sustainable development in the light of learning how to think in terms of “forever”.
 
For all and sundry therefore, Sustainable Development is an educational concept to bring up and rear, erect, raise, lead forth and take out the full human personality; The complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique yet fully developed individual.
 
Education hence, addresses how development is done or how it happens: education would buttress the following developmental axiological queries;
 

• Utility Education would easily buttress the ability to balance and integrate the long-term future of the economy than her anomaly whereabouts e.g. au naturel connotations of world tertiary institutions who cannot rebuff the bane of choosing a valueless (without a true axiological theme) chemical engineering program over a human-centered one, have not only belied the International law on education, but have also produced calculated uses/users of violence or her terrorism fallouts.
• Utile Education would always immediately predestinate or foreordain her users with a responsible production and consumption (SDG-12) tendency or inclination to;
• know that the proper employment ambition would be to play a role in addressing the complex, and interdependent problems that threaten the future of their natural environment and the well-being of the communities they live in.

In conclusion, BTH Education Group’s ICD program or platform for PECE/ICD-FEDC 2016/17-18 program and The ALPHA2000 Map through 2014 – 2016, highlight axiological development et alia as impregnable structures of full human-centered development. Our International Corporation Development Expositions, National Anthropic Development vade mecum and all BTH Education fortes have expressly, precociously and completely translated the DESD background.