The content reform of education for sustainable development
2015
Andersone, R., University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia)
Ensuring of sustainable development of the society becomes more and more topical in the modern globalized society when the technologies develop rapidly, when all the branches of national economy modernize and the style and environment of every person change. One of the factors that will allow the society developing continuously and successfully is education. The aim of the article is to present the findings of the theoretical study that is based on the analysis of the strategic and normative documents of Latvia in different stages (history) of the education content reform. It found the expression in the depolitization of the education content at the beginning of the nineties of the 20th century. Initially the reforms were directed towards liquidating the Soviet traditions and democratization of the education content while developing a democratic society. Reforms in education move from sorting out the content of education to putting in order the network of educational institutions and their modernization taking into consideration the impact of globalization and caring for sustainable development. The competence approach, the development of problem solving skills and the critical thinking skills are topical today in the improvement of the education content. As the result of the reforms the education content becomes more diverse, differential and flexible, more corresponding to the demands of the modern environment and the national strategic aims. However, there are still problems that are connected with objective and subjective conditions and that are to be solved in the implementation of the reforms.
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