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Quality Education

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Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

    1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Anabela Marisa Azul

    1. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  3. Luciana Brandli

    1. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

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  4. Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

    1. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

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  5. Tony Wall

    1. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom

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  • Comprehensively describes research, projects and practical action
  • Provides government agencies, education institutions and non-governmental agencies with a sound basis to promote sustainability efforts
  • Covers many countries, very international
  • Fills a market need, being the world´s most comprehensive publication on the topic

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (ENUNSDG)

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Table of contents (100 entries)

  1. Adult Education, Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals

    • Gunay Faradova

  2. Applied Education for Sustainable Development: A Case Study with Plastic Resource Education

    • Siu-Kit Yeung, Cheuk-Fai Chow

  3. Awareness in Educational Ethics

    • Joshua J. Jodoin

  4. Biostatistics’ Contribution to Global Environmental Education

    • Luis R. Vieira, Fernando Morgado

  5. Campus Greening at an Educational Institution

    • Nandhivarman Muthu, Golda A. Edwin

  6. Carbon Neutral Education: Reducing Carbon Footprint and Expanding Carbon Brainprint

    • Alex Baumber, Johannes M. Luetz, Graciela Metternicht

  7. Challenges of Equity and Discrimination in the Education of Gifted Children

    • Jamie Parr, Tiania Stevens

  8. Challenges to Achieve Quality Education for All in the 2030 Agenda, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Learning Theories

    • Alejandro Molina-Garcia, Josefina Martinez-Ponce

  9. Character Qualities in Educating for Sustainability

    • Maria Garcia Alvarez

  10. Community-Based Education: A Participatory Approach to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goal

    • Corina Joseph, Roshima Said

  11. Compromised Education: Seeing Through the Lens of Malaysian

    • Siok-Yee Chan, Theam Foo Ng, Siok Sin Chan

  12. Compulsory Education and Its Role in Sustainable Development

    • María Dolores Sánchez Galera

  13. Consensus in Science Education

    • Ian Phil Canlas, Mageswary Karpudewan

  14. Contemporary Trends in Education

    • Manoranjan Mohanty

  15. Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship

    • Arda Güçler

  16. Developing Transformational Competencies for Sustainable Development

    • Michael Saffa, Mohamed Jabbie

  17. Disaster-Resistant Schools for Disaster-Resilient Education

    • Johannes M. Luetz

  18. Distance Learning: A Viable Option

    • Amy Emanuel, Natalie Gelche

  19. Early Childhood Education for Sustainability

    • Jane Spiteri

  20. Ecological Thinking in Education

    • Joseph Karuzis
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About this book

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to search for integrated solutions to make development more sustainable. The United Nations has acknowledged the problem and approved the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. On 1st January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda officially came into force. These goals cover the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.  

The Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals comprehensively addresses the SDGs in an integrated way. It encompasses 17 volumes, each devoted to one of the 17 SDGs. This volume addresses SDG 4, namely "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all" and contains the description of a range of terms, which allow a better understanding and foster knowledge.

Concretely, the defined targets are:

  • Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
  • Ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
  • Ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university
  • Substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
  • Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
  • Ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
  • Ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
  • Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all
  • Substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing states and African countries,for enrollment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries
  • Substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing states 


Editorial Board


Olivia A.M. Freeman, Johannes M. Luetz, Petra Molthan-Hill, Theam Foo Ng, Umesh Chandra Pandey, Rudi Pretorius, Valeria Ruiz Vargas, Pinar Gökçin Özuyar



Editors and Affiliations

  • European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  • Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  • Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  • Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  • International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom

    Tony Wall

About the editors

Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 400 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quality Education

  • Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Anabela Marisa Azul, Luciana Brandli, Pinar Gökcin Özuyar, Tony Wall

  • Series Title: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69902-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Earth and Environm. Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69902-8Due: 21 November 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2523-7403

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-7411

  • Topics: Sustainable Development, Education, general, Personal Development

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