RT Journal Article
T1 Education for Sustainable Development: The Iron Fist of Capitalism in the Era of Climate Emergency
A1 Conde, Júlio J.
K1 Climate emergency
K1 Climate change education
K1 Environmental education
K1 Education for sustainable development
AB The realisation that climate tipping points may be triggered in the upcoming decades underscores the urgent need for transformative educational responses to the climate crisis that integrate scientific knowledge with socio-political dimensions. However, the consolidation of Education for Sustainable Development has gradually displaced Environmental Education (EE) from institutional and academic spaces, shifting the focus away from systemic critiques of the socio-economic drivers of the environmental crisis. Through a historical perspective on the consolidation of the paradigm of sustainable development, this article calls for an EE capable of addressing the root causes rather than the symptoms of anthropogenic climate change, contending that the survival of EE as an independent, counter-hegemonic field is essential for fostering transformative educational practices that confront climate emergency. 
PB Cambridge University Press
SN 0814-0626
YR 2025
FD 2025-09-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/43075
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/43075
LA eng
NO Conde JJ. Education for Sustainable Development: The Iron Fist of Capitalism in the Era of Climate Emergency. Australian Journal of Environmental Education. 2025;41(4):985-1002. doi:10.1017/aee.2025.10075
NO The author acknowledges the State Research Agency (AEI) for his postdoctoral fellowship (Grant reference FJC2021-047345-I) funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union NextGenerationEU/ PRTR. SEPA-interea is a Galician Competitive Research Group (GRC) funded by Xunta de Galicia (Grant reference ED431C2025/28).
DS Minerva
RD 21 abr 2026