Education For Sustainable Development In Chinese Teaching

Currently, seriously threatening people's existence and development, environment pollution and zoology destroy have been becoming the most serious challenge to our human being. As one chief of state said, except for nuclear war, environment deteriorate is the maximal threatening to the human. Environment deteriorate has caused people's attention and reflection towards education. If education cannot powerfully support and efficiently reply to people's existence crisis, it is unsuccessful. In order to fitting the requirement of Sustainable Development, bringing up people who have the idea of Sustainable Development, and delivering the idea of Sustainable Development through education, education should be innovated urgently. Therefore, the United Nations' 21 Century Agenda and Rio Declaration in 1992 relocate the environment education to "the direction of education for Sustainable Development(ESD)".ESD, which requires to cultivate modern citizen who have environment protection awareness, strong sense of being the master of one's own affairs and sense of responsibility, is in response to the SD strategy, "environment moral education" should be the new element of quality-oriented education in 21 century. The central content of ESD is environment education, the main teaching method is Inquiry Learning.ESD, which is not limited in a certain subject or several certain subjects, has the feature of integrity and cross-disciplinary. Nowadays, many countries adopt "penetrability principle", which embodies the idea of ESD in all subject's teaching content and all sorts of teaching activity. Of course, as a core curriculum, Chinese should bring into play in environment education and ESD.The best teaching method of ESD is not the instilling of dogma type but pressing close to life and visualizing, Chinese nicely fits to the requirement. Chinese's feature of human culture and principle of unifying literature and moral, having rich resource of environment education in the teaching material, as well as open, pluralizing, inquiring character, decide Chinese has a unique advantage of carrying on ESD.The central content of this research topic is how to embody ESD in Chinese teaching; and how to link ESD with Chinese teaching. The research topic illuminates the academic and realistic basis; necessity; urgency and feasibility in theory. It also gropes for the way; method and goal of carrying on ESD in Chinese. Besides; it discusses the direction of Chinese education innovation from ESD angle; so as to promote carrying on ESD in Chinese education on purpose and in a planned way.The paper raises the question and introduces the significance and actuality of the research in the introduction; foreshadowing the text. The text consists of four chapters. The opening chapter dissertates the genesis and development of ESD in rough- The second chapter dissertates the possibility; necessity of Chinese's ESD; turns over to think the history and describes the actuality of ESD in Chinese. The third chapter discusses the way of carrying on ESD in Chinese teaching. Finally; he fourth chapterparticularly probes for the teaching method of ESD in Chinese teaching----inquirylearning.