Green education for sustainable development goals: Environmental, social, and economic resilience

Although the issue of sustainability has been acknowledged by many, the structural systems of education world over have not been able to resolve the issue of incorporating green education principles that are sensitive enough to tackle issues of environmental degradation, social inequity as well as economic instability. The modeling of the modern educational systems still tends to separate the aspect of sustainability and make it a single topic not a paradigm shift towards a comprehensive resilience in all three pillars of sustainable development. This literature review attempts to explore the changing frontiers of green education and its important role in attainment of Sustainable Development Goals with the major focus on developing environmental stewardship, social equity, and economic viability. The discussion demonstrates that there are five significant pedagogical strategies, which include experiential learning ecosystems, digital sustainability platforms, community-based collaborative models, systems thinking frameworks, and transformative action competence development. The new trends are the use of artificial intelligence to achieve personalized sustainability education, gamification of environmental education, virtual reality to experience an ecological environment, blockchain to monitor sustainability credentials, and citizen science programs that would make the transition between formal and informal education. Green education has shown quantifiable behavior change effects, policy effects, innovation capability, and community stability on implementation of green education using holistic, context-sensitive strategies.