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16<br />

FIGURE 16.3:<br />

Prevalence of key terms relating to global citizenship<br />

<strong>and</strong> sustainable development varies across countries<br />

Percentage of key terms related to sustainable development <strong>and</strong> global<br />

citizenship in national curriculum frameworks, selected countries, 2005–2015<br />

Latin America/Caribbean Sub-Saharan Africa Europe/N. America<br />

Luxembourg<br />

Irel<strong>and</strong><br />

Lithuania<br />

Belgium<br />

Hungary<br />

Norway<br />

United Kingdom<br />

Canada<br />

Malta<br />

Serbia<br />

Croatia<br />

Portugal<br />

Estonia<br />

France<br />

Icel<strong>and</strong><br />

Sweden<br />

U. R. Tanzania<br />

D. R. Congo<br />

Niger<br />

Côte d’Ivoire<br />

Djibouti<br />

Ghana<br />

South Africa<br />

South Sudan<br />

Lesotho<br />

Seychelles<br />

Gambia<br />

Rw<strong>and</strong>a<br />

Zambia<br />

Namibia<br />

Mauritius<br />

Argentina<br />

Haiti<br />

Belize<br />

Dominica<br />

Brazil<br />

Grenada<br />

Paraguay<br />

Mexico<br />

Uruguay<br />

Venezuela, B. R.<br />

Chile<br />

Dominican Rep.<br />

El Salvador<br />

Honduras<br />

Panama<br />

Peru<br />

Guatemala<br />

Nicaragua<br />

initiatives to create environments in which sustainable<br />

development principles are respected <strong>and</strong> students<br />

experience them by, for example, saving energy, reducing<br />

<strong>and</strong> separating waste, purchasing environment-friendly<br />

items <strong>and</strong>, more generally, having environment-friendly<br />

behaviour encouraged. Teachers are asked about their<br />

involvement in initiatives <strong>and</strong> programmes related<br />

to environmental sustainability (Schulz et al., 2016).<br />

Evaluating implementation of this approach will be<br />

challenging, as data will mainly draw on self-reporting<br />

<strong>and</strong> address only some aspects.<br />

Some progress has been made in evaluating participation<br />

<strong>and</strong> decision-making. The 2012 Programme for<br />

International Student Assessment (PISA) asked principals<br />

the proportion of parents participating in activities<br />

including school governance. The results showed less<br />

than 5% involved in countries such as Belgium, the<br />

Netherl<strong>and</strong>s, New Zeal<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> the United Kingdom<br />

<strong>and</strong> over 50% in Colombia, Indonesia <strong>and</strong> Kazakhstan<br />

(OECD, 2013b).<br />

International st<strong>and</strong>ard-setting instruments are also<br />

used to monitor democratic school governance.<br />

In 2010, 50 countries adopted the Council of Europe<br />

Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship <strong>and</strong><br />

Human Rights Education. In 2012, the first monitoring<br />

of its implementation involved responses from 40 of<br />

the 50 countries, with over 90% reporting that they<br />

promoted democratic governance through student<br />

participation <strong>and</strong> parental involvement in decisionmaking.<br />

A follow-up questionnaire will be sent to<br />

governments in 2017 (Kerr, 2012).<br />

TEXTBOOKS<br />

Textbooks are a valuable source of information about<br />

national commitment to sustainable development. They<br />

tend to reflect classroom reality more closely (in terms<br />

of both contents <strong>and</strong> pedagogy) than official curricular<br />

policy statements (Torney-Porta et al., 2001). Recent<br />

advances in textbook content analysis are promising for<br />

gauging curricular content, especially if applied to large<br />

samples of textbooks from many countries.<br />

0<br />

20 40 60 80<br />

%<br />

Sustainable development Global citizenship<br />

Source: IBE (2016a).<br />

100<br />

An analysis of over 500 secondary education history,<br />

social science <strong>and</strong> geography textbooks, spanning 1970<br />

to 2008, found that specific mentions of international<br />

events increased from 30% in the early 1970s to over 40%<br />

in 2005. While almost none of the textbooks mentioned<br />

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CHAPTER 16 | TARGET 4.7 – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

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