REVITALIZING EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY: EXPLORING SOCIAL INNOVATION AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN MODERN PEDAGOGY

With growing global opportunities with regard to sustainability, education should prepare learners for academic achievement and also promote and develop the issues of sustainability. Using the identification of social innovation, Indigenous knowledge and modern approaches to teaching and learning for Sustainable Development, this paper reflects. Consequently, through identifications of how these aspects might be used to incorporate Indigenous wisdom in current education systems, the paper elucidates an opportunity of how Indigenous knowledge may catalyse sustainable development solutions. The study examines the need to challenge and reconstruct some of the common type of ideas on how education should be delivered and emphasizes on implementing a more comprehensive model based on cultural aspects of the community and sustainable environment as well as embracing the demographic Lifestyle.