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\nFaced with the all-out degradation of our environment, society is struggling to mobilize.\u00a0Paradoxically, education is rarely seen as a way to respond to the issues.\u00a0However, many initiatives know how to make children and students actors of the ecological transition.<\/p>\n
The march for the climate will have gathered\u00a0tens of thousands<\/a>\u00a0of people.\u00a0It is both a lot and very little in the light of the stakes.\u00a0At the same time, in an almost general indifference,\u00a0Birdlife International<\/a>\u00a0announced the official extinction of the Spix Macaw, the beautiful blue hero of the cartoon Rio.\u00a0Reality has caught up with fiction.\u00a0At a time when 78% of French people want ecology to be a\u00a0priority for the government<\/a>\u00a0, why does not the mobilization of society take place?<\/p>\n “Our house burns and we look elsewhere,” Jacques Chirac already launched in 2002. Since then, research has become more solid, coherent and worrying than ever.\u00a0The IPCC reports are becoming increasingly alarming, and\u00a0more than 15,000 scientists<\/a>\u00a0have issued an informed and uncompromising warning.\u00a0Global warming, collapse of biodiversity, depletion of natural resources, the triple report is without appeal.<\/p>\n Without massive reaction, the future looks dramatic for our children, if not for ourselves.\u00a0So where is the bug?\u00a0Why do we always look elsewhere?\u00a0Why this amazement that leads Nicolas Hulot to see himself alone in the boat?\u00a0What did we miss?\u00a0and above all, what can be done?<\/p>\n During the interview during which he announced his resignation, Nicolas Hulot drew up a long list of the different French actors with whom he tried to interact to attack the problems in time and scale, to get out of small steps too anecdotal.\u00a0There is no reference to actors in continuing education, national education, culture or higher education and research.\u00a0Any.\u00a0Yet today’s young people will be the actors of tomorrow, and they will have to face the world that we will leave them with what they have learned.<\/p>\n Moreover, it is the teachers, largely convinced of the importance of these issues, who for more than 10 years are supposed to contribute to the change of culture through\u00a0education for sustainable development<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0Why, in these last days of intense debates, was not this action of the school presented as a major point of our commitment in the ecological transition?\u00a0Perhaps because, pedagogically, going well beyond what remains a welcome but limited awareness remains arduous.\u00a0Really.<\/p>\n In fact, these questions are urgent, complex, diverse and require the use of most disciplines: science and mathematics, history, geography, economics … and their complexity makes them hermetic to the usual disciplinary division that underpins our teaching.\u00a0They require a systemic, cooperative and nationally organized approach to support frontline and sometimes distraught teachers.<\/p>\n All this is difficult but not insurmountable.\u00a0At the international level, this mobilization of education is on the agenda.\u00a0The United Nations adopted the\u00a0“17 Sustainable Development Goals”<\/a>\u00a0(SDG)\u00a0agenda<\/a>\u00a0in 2015, which brings together ecological, economic and social issues to provide a global and universal perspective and to organize collective action.\u00a0Recently,\u00a0national education<\/a>\u00a0has shown its willingness to engage in this UN SDG program.<\/p>\n To associate and help teachers to work on the SDGs, to carry out projects with their pupils, the United Nations, Unicef \u200b\u200band Unesco are building, for example,\u00a0“The World’s Biggest Lesson”<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0These educational resources have already reached millions of children in more than 130 countries since their launch in September 2015.The future looks dramatic for our children<\/strong><\/h4>\n
What about education in the ecological transition?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
“World’s Biggest Lesson”<\/a>\u00a0for children, actors of the future<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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