Sustainability education has produced four major traditions, Environmental Education, Climate Education, Education for Sustainable Development, and Climate Justice Education, that have developed largely in parallel. This fragmentation prevents cross-tradition comparison and leaves the most transformative dimensions of the field systematically underdeveloped. This article proposes a four-dimensional Taxonomy of Sustainability Education Design, organized around Educational Approach (D1), Cognitive Depth (D2), Disciplinary Integration (D3), and Real-World Connection (D4), for diagnosing dimensional gaps across educational programs and traditions. The taxonomy was constructed inductively from a critical literature review and interpreted through Edgar Morin’s philosophy of complex thought, whose seven principles explain why dimensional underdevelopment is paradigmatic rather than merely programmatic. The framework is illustrated through two contrasting cases: the UNESCO Associated Schools Network and the Brazilian National Environmental Education program. The mapping suggests a structural asymmetry: the dimensions most consistently underdeveloped, D1 Criticality and Advocacy, D3.5 Community and Indigenous Knowledge, and D4 Systemic and Political, are those most closely associated with transformative and epistemically plural education. The normative and policy implications of these gaps are examined in relation to the geopolitics of epistemological authority, climate-displaced communities, the historical production of colonial vulnerability, and the risk of epistemicide at algorithmic scale in AI-mediated education.
Patricia Tosetto, P. Fernandes, R. D. da Silva et al.· Sustainability· 0 citations
This work proposes and experimentally validates a structured development flow from rapid prototyping to printed circuit board (PCB) implementation for embedded systems operating in constrained environments. The approach is applied to a battery pack monitoring system for sounding rockets, and it is responsible for acquiring voltage, current, and temperature data and transmitting telemetry via an RS-422 interface at 38.4 kbps. The methodology starts with the integration of commercially available modules and evolves to a custom PCB while preserving the validated functional architecture. Experimental validation was conducted through bench and tri-axial vibration tests, demonstrating consistent system performance in sensing, processing, and telemetry, with no observed signal degradation or discontinuities. The results confirm that the proposed approach preserves system functionality and reduces development uncertainty, while providing a clear framework for design stages, validation procedures, and component selection. Furthermore, the findings support the use of low-cost commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components in non-critical applications when appropriate validation strategies are applied, while emphasizing the need for additional qualification for critical use cases. The development flow is explicitly designed to support TRL progression, such that the evidence accumulated at each stage provides the traceability required for future qualification under critical classification.
Carlos Renato dos Santos, Adriano Costa Pinto, V. Leite et al.· Hardware· 0 citations
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