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ESD for Public Administration: An Essential Challenge for Inventing the Future of Our Society

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  • Vasile-Daniel Păvăloaia

    (Department of Accounting, Business Information Systems and Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, 700506 Iaşi, Romania)

  • Mircea Radu Georgescu

    (Department of Accounting, Business Information Systems and Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, 700506 Iaşi, Romania)

  • Daniela Popescul

    (Department of Accounting, Business Information Systems and Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, 700506 Iaşi, Romania)

  • Laura-Diana Radu

    (Department of Accounting, Business Information Systems and Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, 700506 Iaşi, Romania)

Abstract

The role of local and central public administrations in promoting sustainable development and building up a better future for society is essential. In order to fulfill this mission, employees in public administration sector must engage in long life learning processes, for the purpose of developing skills such as: anticipation, interdisciplinarity, diversity of perspectives, working with incomplete or complex information, participation in sustainable development processes, cooperation, individual decision-making capacities, empathy, solidarity, and self-motivation. The Education for Sustainable Development as a component of lifelong learning is, in this light, of utmost importance. In this spirit, this paper investigates what is the Romanian public sector employees’ perception of long life learning as an essential premise of Education for Sustainable Development, by analysing on the one hand the degree of digital maturity of public institutions in Romania, and on the other hand the interest of employees in such institutions to engage in Education for Sustainable Development function of the following disjunct behavioural/emotional states: Disappointment, Conflicts, Satisfaction/Contentment, Doubt, Exhaustion, Attachment.

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  • Vasile-Daniel Păvăloaia & Mircea Radu Georgescu & Daniela Popescul & Laura-Diana Radu, 2019. "ESD for Public Administration: An Essential Challenge for Inventing the Future of Our Society," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-27, February.
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