The inner development goals – changing educational systems to meet the challenge of human generated global crises

Wood, P ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9707-0501, 2024. The inner development goals – changing educational systems to meet the challenge of human generated global crises. In: Kushnir, I, Sood, K, Park, MS-A, Zhong, H and Serret, N, eds., Education and sustainable development in the context of crises: international case studies of transformational change. Leeds: Emerald, pp. 125-139. ISBN 9781837977765

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Abstract

We are facing a number of concurrent human-induced crises which, it might be claimed, are the result of entangled processes which flow between and through the issues of climate change, environmental degradation, political instability, global health problems and economic inequalities. These crises are now posing existential threats to ecosystems, habitats, lifeforms and humans. One reaction to these crises has been the instigation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Their influence can be argued to have met varied levels of impact and success, but in a complex, interconnected world, perhaps, it is too much to expect that they would, by themselves, act as a management tool which would solve all our ills as they focus on the large scale, not the individual. This leaves a gap for a framework which supports individual growth towards supporting sustainability. The Inner Development Goals (Inner Development Goals, 2021) framework is a recent innovation, initially suggested by three Swedish organisations with the express intent of fostering capacities and perspectives at the individual level which will encourage populations to engage with the crises we face in more informed, motivated and practical ways. Through an engagement with the literature, this chapter considers the need for the IDGs in education as a process through which the SDGs can be engaged with at an individual level. This debate is both current and important as it suggests a way in which individual agency can be brought to bear on the global crises we all face.

Item Type:	Chapter in book
Description:	Chapter 8
Creators:	Wood, P.
Publisher:	Emerald
Place of Publication:	Leeds
Date:	2024
ISBN:	9781837977765
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1108/978-1-83797-773-420241008 DOI 1854920 Other
Rights:	Copyright © 2025 Phil Wood. This work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of these works (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Institute of Education
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	03 Dec 2024 11:10
Last Modified:	04 Dec 2024 14:09
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52688

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