The international Eco-Schools programme promotes Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) through introducing and stimulating pro-environmental initiatives by school learners and staff. This enabled learners in the Eco-Clubs at a resource-poor primary school to identify and undertake transformative proenvironmental initiatives in 2011 and 2014 through Self-Directed Education (SDE). An educative approach encouraging critical thinking at the school provided the foundation that made this possible. In discussing and working through their strategies to undertake research and challenge authorities about noncompliance in regard to municipal responsibilities that led to environmental degradation, Eco-Club members liaised freely with teachers and other learners. This process, together with local support for the eco-school initiatives, stimulated widespread interest and generated hope among learners by showing that another way of being is possible.

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在生态学校计划内的两个变革性亲环境倡议中进行的自我指导教育：南非案例研究

国际生态学校计划通过引入和刺激学校学习者和教职员工的环保倡议来促进可持续发展教育（ESD）。这使资源贫乏的小学中的生态俱乐部的学习者能够通过自我指导教育（SDE）在2011年和2014年确定并采取变革性的环保举措。一种在学校鼓励批判性思维的教育方法为实现这一目标奠定了基础。在讨论和制定他们的策略以进行研究并向当局提出质疑时，环保局成员与老师和其他学习者保持了自由联系，他们对导致环境恶化的市政责任不遵守规定进行了调查。这个过程，加上当地对生态学校计划的支持，