The role of school partnerships in promoting education for sustainability and social capital

Iris Alkaher, Dafna Gan

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Abstract

State, civil society and private sector partnerships play a crucial role in fostering a sustainable society. This case study explores the role of school-state-community-civil society-business partnerships in promoting environmental citizenship as a major component of education for sustainability (EfS), and social capital as a new outcome, from a school’s perspective. The findings indicate that the school succeeded in establishing and maintaining long-term connections with diverse actors. Both the connections and the actors promoted EfS and social capital within the school and community. School-state-community partnerships cultivated the students’ and community’s environmental citizenship, and school-business partnerships improved the physical infrastructure of the School, and also assisted the promotion of EfS in the school. Additionally, school-business partnerships were hard to sustain in long term.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)416-433
Number of pages18
JournalJournal of Environmental Education
Volume51
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

  • )
  • actors in the community
  • education for sustainability (EfS
  • environmental citizenship
  • school partnerships
  • social capital

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