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Africa's mode of response to the ESD challenge could be gleaned from the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) . Nigeria already has a National Conservation Education Strategy which predated NEPAD and may serve as the launching-pad for ESD-related activities and strategies for the development of appropriate knowledge, values, skills and perspectives. This paper posits that the country will only make a success of its current efforts if there is the political will to learn from past mistakes and borrow from best practices across the globe.  \nIntroduction  \nThe United Nations (UN) General Assembly's adoption of a Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), in 2002, was in recognition that current economic development trends are not sustainable and that public awareness, education, and training are key to moving society toward sustainability (McKeown, 2002) . However, DESD poses different challenges to countries and regions of the world. This is because of peculiar situations they face in the task of bringing about changes in knowledge, skills, values, and perspectives related to environmental, economic and societal issues that impinge on the arrival of a new paradigm for intergenerational development implicit DESD. The task is particularly daunting for Africa in view of its widespread poverty, illiteracy, diseases and underdevelopment.  \nFor Africa to make a significant showing in the DESD requires a critical appraisal of its developmental challenges with a view to identifying educational policy options for action. This paper was conceived within that context with three goals in mind: first, to examine the implications of the concept of sustainable development for the African continent with reference to the DESD; second, to highlight curricular elements in mainstreaming sustainable development into African schools with focus on Nigeria; and third, to re-focus some likely problems and issues associated with promoting the new paradigm of sustainable living in Nigeria and Africa. Materials for the study were generated through secondary sources. Thus, the analysis was based on a review of related literature and documents available mainly in libraries and electronic media.  \n© 2005 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 94 April 21, 2005  \nMainstreaming Sustainable Development into African School Curricula: Issues for Nigeria  \nSustainable Development and Education for Sustainable Living  \n\"Sustainable development\" has meant different things to different writers. Some have tended to focus on production and thus narrowly viewed it as a process of achieving a buoyant economy (e.g. Stepanov, 2004; Adesanya, 2004) . For those who focus on the natural environment (e.g. Taranets & Alyona, 2004; Raheem, Hanninem & Ogunyemi, 2004), sustainable development is all about achieving an ecological balance. And yet for others (e.g. Scoullos, 2004; Newman, 2004), the process goes beyond what is expressed in these two narrow perspectives, to include all what humanity and nature require for their existence both at the present moment as well as in the future. This last perspective is particularly evident in the popular report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) which asserts that sustainable development is \"a process in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological ","cbCairzP1z8jpg6j","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairzP1z8jpg6j","pdf",195483,"English","# Introduction\n## Sustainable Development and Education for Sustainable Living","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of this paper on sustainable development in Africa?\",\"answer\":\"The paper examines how sustainable development can be mainstreamed into African school curricula, with a focus on Nigeria, in line with the UN ESD agenda.\"},{\"question\":\"What sources does the study use for its analysis?\",\"answer\":\"Materials are generated through secondary sources, relying on a review of related literature and available documents, mainly from libraries and electronic media.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper emphasize political will for Nigeria’s ESD efforts?\",\"answer\":\"It argues Nigeria can only make success of its current efforts if there is political will to learn from past mistakes and borrow best practices from around the globe.\"}]","Mainstreaming Sustainable Development into African School Curricula - Issues for Nigeria | PDF",1792090947,25]