(Book Review) Education and Learning for Sustainable Futures: 50 Years of Learning for Environment and Change

Education is often talked about as being the opening salvo to combat Earth's triple planetary crisis -climate, nature, and pollution, and really any systemic instability of the 21st century.Yet what kind of education is actually required, and whether any of the previous efforts have meaningfully had an impact, remains somewhat unclear.As Miseliunaite et al. (2022) argue, "education does more than react to a changing world; education transforms the world," underscoring the need to critically examine not just educational intent, but educational design and impact.In Education and Learning for Sustainable Futures: 50 Years of Learning for Environment and Change, Macintyre, Tilbury, and Wals offer a concise historical timeline of the evolution of environmental and sustainability education from the 1972 Stockholm Conference to the present.At the Stockholm +50 conference, their argument was framed around a stark realization: "What has become clear is the importance of education and learning in addressing what we can term a crisis of culture" (Macintyre et al., 2025, p. 6).The book will be of particular interest to scholars, teacher educators, early-career educators, administrators, and policymakers seeking a framework grounded in fifty years of historical integration to support a shift in the current paradigm of sustainability education.