Abstract
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a broad agreed concept for development of human society till 2030. One of the SDGs targets is to ensure that all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed for sustainable development implementation.
More specifically, environmental literacy of learners and students is to be developed for ensuring people s profound understanding of complex (interrelated) environmental, social and economic issues and principles that enable addressing today's social and environmental challenges in the globalized world. Although there is more than thirty years effort to educate people about sustainable development there is still a lack of understanding of the concept by the general public mostly because of its complexity.
In our paper we want to show that one of the waysto raise public and students awareness of sustainable development is to apply sustainable development indicators and indices. To demonstrate this, we analyzed major sustainable development indicators and indices in relation to environmental literacy components using the system of codes.
Based on this qualitative analysis the relevant indicators and indices with the potential for development of students environmental literacy in all its components were selected. These indicators and indices were further assessed by the expert panel according to predetermined criteria (e.g. importance, attractiveness of the topic, indicator communication style) and indicators/indices with the best potential for the use in sustainable development education were finally chosen.The study results will provide inputs for the development of a new didactic method and materials that will be tested and subsequently used in secondary school education.
We believe that the results of the study might be of interest to other countries with similar socio-cultural conditions as the Czech Republic.