| dc.description.abstract | The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de
Janeiro in 1992 recognized education as an important tool for enhancing the attainment of
sustainable development. Chapter 36 of Agenda 21 emphasized the role of education in supporting
sound decision-making and hence the need to re-orient education and especially Higher Education
towards sustainable development. Currently the world is facing increased consumption of resources
which is causing climate change and other threats to the natural world and its global life-support
systems. This is alongside overpopulation, overconsumption, increased global competition and
interdependence, melting ice caps, financial meltdowns, and wars and other threats to security. One
of education’s chief roles is to prepare future workers and citizens to deal with the challenges of
their times and hence the need for participatory approach to community development through
Education for Sustainable development. ESD has emerged as a “new” way to know, a kind of
broad, inclusive, holistic understanding. It is looked at as a logical way of knowing that is proper to
the domains of information, teaching, and research and community engagement. Educational
approaches now are to keep pace with the evolving challenges of sustainable development in the
Kenyan communities. This paper aims at discussing participatory approach towards community
development through Education for Sustainable Development. It will also look at the strategies of
promoting and implementing ESD in order to realize Community development through higher
institutions of learning. | en_US |
