Kanika Chakraborty

Kanika Chakraborty

A close-up portrait photograph shows a young woman with shoulder-length dark brown hair, looking directly at the camera with a cheerful, wide smile that shows her teeth. She has her hand, with her fingers slightly curled, resting against her chin. She wears a navy blue plaid button-down shirt over a white t-shirt and has a green bag strap visible over her left shoulder. The background is an out-of-focus cityscape with buildings under an overcast sky.

The Education for Sustainable Development workshop deepened my understanding of sustainable development. Before the session, I mainly associated sustainability with environmental protection, climate responsibility, social justice, and economic balance. Through the workshop, I learned that sustainability is also shaped by people’s worldviews, values, assumptions, power relations, institutional roles, and ethical responsibilities. It is not only about technical solutions, but also about asking difficult questions: Who benefits? Who suffers? Who decides? Whose voices are missing? Overall, the workshop changed how I understand education for sustainable development and strengthened my learning as a Master’s in Research and Innovation in Higher Education student.