Heirs to the future. Towards a new pedagogical culture of human development and sustainability

Abstract

The COVID-19 health emergency and the planetary crisis, which are inextricably linked to the ongoing climate and environmental impacts, have forced us to confront unprecedented contingencies, serving as a reflective stimulus to address some of the most urgent educational issues. Sustainability should be understood as the transformative possibility of “changing the way”, that is, the educational paradigm, which can only be mobilized by pedagogically qualified lifestyles oriented toward integral, environmental, and human ecology. Accepting this conscious and non-rhetorical invitation directly requires pedagogical responsibility in initiating processes of profound reflection for a new culture of human development that reclaims the ontological values of limitation and care as indicators of human and social resilience.