Sustainability in Modern Political Economy and Education

Although the needs for transformative types of education policies are universal for modern political economy, specific educational fields and sections have to incorporate; most vital and substantial for national agenda are sustainability courses, modules and curricula. Incorporating process seems quite complicated’ i.e. it includes teaching new skills, as well as re-skilling exiting workforce through vocational training, in accordance with national renewed political economies and structural modernisation. New teaching approaches in education require both specific tools and methods, including on-line modes; besides, a new cohort of teachers shall be “produced” capable of delivering sustainability’s goals. Only in this way, modernized education policies will fit into “quality education” required by SDG-4 and facilitate optimal functioning of modern political economy’s patterns. Reforming educational process along the “sustainability requirements” has been a complex process of a double nature: on one side, it involves, for example, a sustainability triangle, i.e. taking into consideration political, socio-economic and environmental factors in modernized national growth patterns; on another sides, fundamental changes in national education policies shall be implemented, based on the so-called “purely technical” issues of teaching sustainability and general transitions in education and learning concepts.