III. Writing in the Discipline as a Platform in Education for Sustainable Development

        Since experts were coming from different academic backgrounds, this platform provided a space to step beyond their daily research horizon and debate subject related fields in formal and informal discussions.

“Education for Sustainable Development”(ESD) is a vision of education that seeks to empower people to assume responsibility for creating  a sustainable future. Central to ESD is the concept of culture as an essential underlying theme. Recognizing that there is no “single route” to sustainable development and that perception of, and ideas for sustainability are different, participants need to work together to negotiate the process of achieving sustainability.