Russian education in the perspective of sustainable development strategy

The article notes that education for sustainable development (ESD) is not only a prerequisite for the achievement of sustainable development (SD), but it means a priority. Move to SD actually begins with the formation of ESD, which has become like one of the key instruments for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and the new 17-ti global sustainable development goals, which were adopted at the summit on sustainable development to establish itself in the area of sustainable development until 2030 Agenda. Thus, the ESD as a global process should precede the formation of a sustainable future in its «full format». This temporal feature ESD Russian scientists was recognized not only as a further greening of education, but also its futurization, ie a shift in focus on the study and modeling of the future. Leading mechanism futurization education consists of education inclusion in future issues, as well as much more rapid (in comparison with other types of human material activity) development. While primarily an ecological vision of the forms and directions of education, which has not been given a sufficiently clear vector of development at the official level. Therefore, the challenge is to create an enhanced total system and the concept of ESD and to identify optimum ways and forms
of development.The process of transition of the Russian education highway «global sustainability» has already begun, but not yet acquired a wide scale. In the country it is important to take unconventional decisions at the state level, which will have to target the Russian system of education in the new global goals of transition on the path of SD.

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