The Nature of indicators for sustainable development and education for sustainable development on the international level
Abstract
The main issue of the paper is to show how the educational aspects of the sustainable development concept or various aspects of education for sustainable development are monitored and evaluated on the international level. Based on a content analysis of selected documents related to the above concepts as well as on the analysis of the indicator sets that these documents follow the authors state that the indicators monitoring and evaluating the progress in SD and ESD are mostly procedural and quantitative ones.
The authors emphasize that the concept of sustainable development is strongly value and attitude oriented, and change of the values and attitudes are, inter alia, affected by different types of education. Thus they suggest widening the existing indicator sets (related to sustainable development strategies as well as to strategies of education for sustainable development), and adding the indicators for monitoring and evaluating also the change of humans' values and attitudes.