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Capozzi  \n2005 marks the beginning of the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), but awareness of this event is practically nonexistent in the New York City public high school where I teach English. A concerted effort to teach for--or even about--sustainability in mathematics, science, business and humanities classes is more remote still. The reasons are as various as they are predictable: \"poverty, ignorance, disease and violence\"--the real \"axis of evil\" (Henderson & Ikeda, 2004, p. 84)--and high-stakes testing thrown in for good measure. In this essay, I will discuss two key issues specific to education that may help us deal more effectively with the obstacles keeping ESD from being better known and universally embraced in the schools: 1) curriculum; and 2) school culture. The important points to retain are that ESD will require a fully integrated approach to curriculum development; that small schools are by virtue of their scale better suited to do ESD; and that ideally the physical infrastructure should reflect the values and technologies which make ESD possible. My hope is to interest a number of like-minded individuals in joining an evolving team of educators, as we design together a model small school founded on the principles of ESD.  \nSince curriculum is not value-neutral, our values should be transparent: \"peace, equity, and justice [are] necessary for a sustainable society\" (McKeown, n. d.) . However, in the words of Nobel Peace laureate Jimmy Carter, \"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children\" (Carter, 2002, p. 35) . In my quest to expedite our transformation from a culture of war to a culture of peace, I turn ironically to texts about war. Nel Noddings has famously made the case for using texts about war as pre-texts for teaching about and for peace, and she repeated them on August 13, 2003, during a panel discussion held at Columbia University 's Alfred J. Lerner Hall to mark the opening of the \"Building a Culture of Peace for the Children of the World\" exhibition. Nobel Peace laureate Betty Williams (1977) and Danny Hall, cochair of the SGI-USA's Victory Over Violence initiative, were her co-panelists. On that occasion, she used the example of the Iliad, a war epic, to teach for peace. Another example from literature that comes to mind is Shakespeare's Coriolanus, a play that I would like to discuss in some detail in order to parallel problems we face in educating for sustainability.  \nIs Coriolanus, one of the last great tragedies, written in 1608, a \"sustainable\" play? Hardly. Yet the issues that Shakespeare has raised in Coriolanus are a core problematic of our time as well, for as Hazel Henderson observes, \"You can't have a holistic view without being a whole person\" (2004, p. 53) . In Coriolanus, pride prevents the patrician anti-hero from baring his heart before the famine-afflicted plebeians and exchanging his war wounds for their accolades; their ignorance, which deprives the people of a clean conscience, drives their would-be leader out of Rome. Such is their mutual contempt  \n© 2005 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 130 April 21, 2005  \nSowing the Seeds: Moving Curriculum and School Culture  \nTowards Education for Sustainable Development  \nthat it clogs the arteries of communication, and Coriolanus's betrayal by Rome fuels his desire for vengeance, as well as the ambitions of his arch-nemesis, Aufidius, leader of the Antiates, with whom he later teams up in a last ditch effort to avenge himself. Even his own mother, who for vainglory corrupted her son's unyielding nature in an attempt to make him Consul, is willing to sacrifice him on the abstract altar of the","cbCainDZnTI4pEaM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainDZnTI4pEaM","pdf",165954,"English","# Education for Sustainable Development in schools\n## Curriculum and school culture barriers\n## Integrated curriculum and small school potential\n# Teaching for sustainability through literature\n## Values, peace, and justice in curriculum\n## Coriolanus as a case study for famine, war, and interconnection\n# Connecting human development to social justice and growth\n## The cycle of conflict and resource consumption","[{\"question\":\"Why does the essay focus on curriculum and school culture for ESD?\",\"answer\":\"The essay identifies curriculum and school culture as two key education issues that can help address obstacles preventing ESD from being better known and embraced in schools.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the essay claim ESD requires from schools?\",\"answer\":\"ESD is described as needing a fully integrated approach to curriculum development, support from small-school structures, and physical infrastructure that reflects ESD values and the technologies that make ESD possible.\"},{\"question\":\"How is Coriolanus used to support education for sustainable development?\",\"answer\":\"The essay treats Coriolanus as a way to parallel problems in educating for sustainability by linking famine, hoarding, ignorance, contempt, and the escalation of conflict to broader themes of social justice and human development.\"}]","Sowing the Seeds - Moving Curriculum and School Culture Towards Education for Sustainable Development | PDF",1792090956,12]