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Data: Kindergarten – Grade 12 Ministry of Education Census (Canada)
A Ministry-level census examined the inclusion of sustainability in curriculum frameworks as well as governance, curriculum, operations, research, and community engagement documents from all 13 provincial/territorial ministries of education.
The following spreadsheet identifies the census results by province.
*Sustainability-specific policy refers to high-level Ministry documents that were identified as a) pertaining to primary or secondary education (but excluding, for example, grade-specific curricula), and b) focusing on environmental sustainability at a minimum (excluding, for example, documents that referred only to economic sustainability or program sustainability). Several provincial ministries produced more than one high-level document in a given domain (e.g., multiple high-level sustainability documents in the curriculum domain); and in these cases, all were included in the analysis.
**Sustainability Competency refers to the inclusion of one or more sustainability-related competencies within a cross-curricular competency framework (also termed “Essential Graduation Learnings” or “Broad Areas of Learning”). The titles of the cross-curricular competency frameworks are listed in Column “J.”
Related Resources
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| Infographics: Sustainability in Canadian K-12 Education | Research Brief: Sustainability in Canadian K-12 Education | Scholarly Publication: National Census of Sustainability in K-12 Education |