- Education for Sustainable Development
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) equips learners across all disciplines with the knowledge, skills, attributes, and values required to pursue sustainable visions of the future. Using active pedagogies learners are supported in addressing complex or ‘wicked problems’ and identifying how they can contribute to solutions that address environmental integrity, social justice, and economic prosperity.
If we as educators are serious about preparing our students for the future, we must embrace ESD and ensure that every graduate has not only the knowledge and skills but also the attributes that will enable them at least to cope and ideally thrive in the face of the multiple challenges they will face across their life course in the 21st century.
- IAC – Sustainable Development Goals
Why is SDG important? As a human with different races, different skin colors, different ways of thinking and the most important is different cultures and needs to survive in the real world, we are facing challenges, inequalities, and disasters in human rights, economic differences, and environmental ordeal. So how can art and culture contribute to SDG?
Here at IAC, in the Pakistani context the amalgamation of art, culture, technology, and SDG has been realized in many multidisciplinary areas, especially in the creative industry. The diverse culture indirectly affects a cross-culture awareness amongst various races in Pakistan that lead to national unity, where people live in harmony and understanding, which are in line with the goals of SDG.
The application of SDG in arts and culture is not new to mankind. As a whole, at IAC the art, culture, and SDGs are directly embedded in the educational system since their realization. From the perspective of IAC, the SDGs are classified into 3 categories and illustrated as under:
