ABSTRACT
The SHES approach to sustainability education embraces not only the education of students but also the education of stakeholders and societies. Its vision is sustainable societies. Its mission, which must be fulfilled if the vision is to be realized, is sustaining the viability of valued human and environmental systems. Its strategic goal, which must be achieved if the mission is to be fulfilled, is social learning for sustainability. The theme at the core of the SHES approach is the use of systems thinking to reveal the systemic and interactional complexity of sustainability situations holistically as an alternative to the reductionist perspectives inherent in discipline-based thinking, and the use of the same holistic perspective to envision both sustainable alternatives to those sustainability situations and viable means of transforming the sustainability situations into the sustainable alternatives. This chapter presents the SHES approach as a sequence of discrete stages, phases, tasks, and subtasks.
