Education and the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 toward National Standards for Including the SDGs in the Palestinian Curriculum
Keywords:
Sustainable development goals, standards, indicators, Palestinian curriculaAbstract
The aim of this study was to develop criteria describing the topics of the development goal to be included in the curricula.To achieve this, a qualitative approach was used, as international and local documents related to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 were analyzed, in-depth interviews with educational experts were conducted, and the honesty of standards developed from several specialized categories, including sustainable development experts, educational experts and curriculum authors were investigated. The study came up with criteria and indicators in the light of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, and each criterion included a number of indicators indicative of it. In light of the results, the study recommends the need to develop curriculum policies and adopt standards and indicators to be one of the reference documents for the development of the Palestinian curriculum and a reference for building educational content in the Arab world.
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