Symposium: "Which curriculum(s) for the Sustainable Development Goals?"
Montpellier, April 5-6, 2018.
At a time when both formal and informal education systems are mobilizing around UNESCO's new "Education 2030" roadmap focused on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is essential that we also mobilize as a community of education researchers. The seventeen goals defined by the United Nations cover the whole range of what is known in the French-speaking community as "educations to." The educational implementation of these 17 goals is in itself a major challenge for the world of education: does it involve creating so many new pathways or systems from scratch? Does it involve integrating these goals into existing curricula by breaking them down? Does it involve restructuring curricula around the SDGs? Is it, finally, a new educational utopia, a heterotopia (in Durkheim's sense) or a neoliberal standardizing aim? How can they be applied according to geopolitical and cultural spheres, in the North and in the South? This conference aims to debate these questions from a critical and scientific point of view.
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Opening of the symposium
by Jean-Paul Udave, with the participation of Philippe Augé, President of the University of Montpellier,
Thinking about education in terms of "curriculum," interests, and difficulties.
Roger-François Gauthier
Education for sustainable development in the curricula created in everyday school life.
Ines Barbosa de Oliveira
The SDGs: a necessary commitment by public policy makers and society.
Eric Vindimian