TEACHER EDUCATORS’ COMMITMENT WITH PROMOTION OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN

Abstract

The indispensable role of education in promoting sustainable development is intensifying sustainable awareness and shaping attitude and behavior of the people. Equipped with sound awareness, have positive and strong attitude and behavior, teacher educators promote valuable theoretical knowledge and practical activities to students for their understanding and practicing of sustainable development. This effort was to examine commitment of teacher educators with promotion of sus-tainable development in Pakistan. Teacher educators from leading teacher training institutes including universities were interviewed to ascertain their awareness and understanding of issues related to sustainable development, as well as their underly-ing attitudes and behaviors. The Results revealed that the teacher educators possess awareness about sustainable development to the extent of just familiar with the terms related to ESD. This would indicate a weak commitment to ESD as they had positive but non-significant attitude and behavior. This would be a call of the day for policy makers and concerned competent authorities as Issues raised concerning the aware-ness, attitude and behavior of teacher educators if they are to enable students (pro-spective teachers) to prepare their pupils for life as global citizens.

Keywords

• Teacher Educators,
• Commitment,
• Education for Sustainable Development

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