The ‘Sustainability’ concept: migration and significant changes in the educational field

• Autor(a) principal: Faustino, Manuel
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Amador, Filomena
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v8i1.12623

In the middle of last century, in the period after World War II, and in economic reconstruction the term“development” was the common denominator in the political, economic and social discourse. In this seethe, the word turned out to be associated with other contexts and adjectives and nowadays references to Sustainable Development emerge with widespread use in all sectors and areas of our society. Similarly, the concept of “sustainability” has been used as a vague way, confused and many times as synonym of Sustainable Development, which should be clarified since both terms contain different perspectives. Based on the analysis of papers and documents published after the Brundtland report period to the present and, in a broader framework of Education for Sustainable Development, the aim of this study was to analyze the migration and the changing meaning of the term sustainability, namely “sustainable education”, “sustainable leadership” in educational organizations and “sustainable pedagogy”. Thus and according to our perspective it seems to be extremely important to analyze, from a theoretical point of view, these differences, trying to identify and compare them, understand the contexts and meanings that the terms reacquire and especially identify whether these migrations are ideological misrepresentation against the conceptions assumed in the context of Education for Sustainable Development.