THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING ABOUT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The problem of unsustainability has been attributed to a wide variety of root causes including economic growth, greediness and leadership impotence. Helping new generation learn about sustainable development by putting its principles into practice during a community forum can catalyze individual and collective action on environmental, economic and social equity issues by raising awareness and consciousness. Outside the higher education sector, education about sustainable development can be accomplished through community learning forums and are then given an opportunity to operationalize the principles with discussion tool, planning model and decision-making framework. So, the barriers to cooperating and communicating with each other are falling down. This paper explains the importance of the separation of conceptual knowledge from experience. The solution to this problem is reconnective learning to use when designing and implementing educational programs.