ABSTRACT
This chapter acknowledges and supports Sauv's viewpoint and puts the varying conceptualizations of three of the concepts: nature, the environment and sustainable development under direct scrutiny, and also takes into account the differing concepts of education. It delves even further into an exploration of whether, and how, the global and hegemonic sustainable development discourse can be institutionalized within a nation's formal education system. Sustainable development can be viewed as a global environmental discourse, that is, an articulation of knowledge and power that serves to legitimize dominant ideas and beliefs about how the environment should be conceptualized, viewed, and utilized. Within the context of formal environmental education in Jamaica, a main question is raised: whether national and individual constructions of sustainable development in Jamaica, and the global construction of sustainable development, are competing or complementing narratives as they are articulated in current environmental education curricula.
