Role of Libraries in the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Holistic, Transdisciplinary and Historic-Cultural Approach of Social and Professional Competences Education

Abstract

The general strategy, goals and programs of the UNESCO (2014) World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development are assumed as an integration of de previous conceptions including the Knowledge Society y the importance of educational, social and local, politics and strategies where science, technology and innovation are integrated with an environmental perspective of sustainable development for the complete and transdisciplinar identification, comprehension and solution of the complex social problems. The role UNESCO concedes to information and communication, the changes in the competences profile of the information professionals in XXI Century and the role of libraries and other information institution in different levels of the Education, are remarked. There are shown the challenges that this socio-historical context imposes to pedagogical and didactic models, to contemporary curricula and to local and communitarian development strategies and how the solutions are integrated in an holistic, cognitive and affective approach of competences, incorporating the required motivation, the values and the feelings for the transformations that professionals (also information professionals) are expected to lead in the academic, organizational and communitarian spaces.