Higher Education Way for Sustainable Development in India

Abstract

This paper argues that in the concept of Higher Education and Sustainable Development has a distinct character focusing Indian education system in 21th century. According to the United Nations  Educational,  Scientific  and  Cultural  Organization's  (UNESCO)  Education  is  the basis  for  a  Sustainable  Development.  It  has  become  a  social process  of  construction  of  a pedagogical  object, plural,  as  full  of  contradictions  as  reality  itself.  The  creation  of  an educational system which takes into consideration gender differences as well as  differences among  all  sectors,  whether  it  is  formal  or  non  formal  education,  to  reach  the  non communicated  communities,  is  considered  as  a  fundamental  element  of  Education  for  a Sustainable  Development  (ESD)  for  the  last  40  years,  Higher Education  (EE)  has played an important role in several  discourses. For some, it has been more part of the problem than of the solution.  Nevertheless, Education has become a source of inspiration for many of us. Educators  here  in  India,  for  instance,  although  doing  different  things  and  dealing  with different  needs,  have  been  able  to  define  strategies  of  pedagogical  research,  to  build collective  identities,  to  identify  and  share  strategies  to  find  common  objectives  and  to persevere as we reach  for them. In this way we considered many higher education indicators for educational sustainability in India.