Issues of Sustainable Development in the Education of Elementary School Youth: Facts and Prospects

Marcin Klimski; Urszula Sulewska

doi:10.21852/sem.1843

Published: 2025-06-30

Vol. 46 No. 1 (2025)

Issues of Sustainable Development in the Education of Elementary School Youth: Facts and Prospects

Marcin Klimski

, Urszula Sulewska

Seminare. Learned Investigations

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.1843

Abstract

The United Nations Resolution entitled “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” identifies the contemporary global challenges that need to be addressed this decade. The document includes seventeen specific goals, whose implementation depends on, among other things, the quality and scope of young people’s sustainable development education, started as early as at the primary school. This article will present the needs and possibilities of developing that education as part of compulsory and additional school subjects. Furthermore, certain recommendations for teachers will be proposed in the area of shaping primary school students’ sensitivity to the problems mentioned in the Resolution.

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Sustainable development education, sustainable development, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, general education core curriculum for the primary school

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Klimski, M., & Sulewska, U. (2025). Issues of Sustainable Development in the Education of Elementary School Youth: Facts and Prospects. Seminare. Learned Investigations, 46(1), 197–208. https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.1843

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