Sustainable Education through Creativity, Activity and Service (CAS)

Abstract

In this paper, a study has been done to find out, first, how Creativity, Activity, Service(CAS) activity/project is promoting education for sustainable development and second, what approach is used to promote it. The purpose is to bring into focus the significance of education of sustainable development to meet sustainable development goals (SDGs) through CAS. The method used is qualitative content analysis of web pages of 44 IB World Schools websites obtained by applying random sampling technique. The results highlight that CAS activities/projects does have activities directly related to sustainable development, but what is not evident is that how these activities are linked to the SDGs. It is found that CAS activity/project is an efficient tool for promoting education for sustainable development coupled with project focused approach delivered through community service programmes.