ABSTRACT
One-third of the world’s people are youths, and they need a voice to find and determine their own future. Their active role in environment protection and their involvement in decisions about the environment and development will determine the success of sustainable development and their environmental future.
One of the four major thrusts of education for sustainable development is to include more principles, skills, perspective and values related to sustainability in the teaching and learning process. To make it happen, schools need to reorient education, infuse sustainable development issues into subjects, partner with the community and develop students’ decision-making skills. A growing number of schools in Indonesia have reformed their school curriculum to address sustainable development. The Green Action Project (GAP) is a program to develop students’ competency while at the same time help students engage with local communities and have their voices heard.
This chapter describes how sustainability has been taught in Indonesian schools, including the pedagogical themes that have been applied and how teachers work with students in implementing students’ Green Action Projects. The level of students’ participation and factors that prevent students to engage more in genuinely participatory ways are also presented.
