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history and the institutionalisation process of the Decade in Germany together with three successful projects which can serve as examples of „good practices and the success criteria as well as indication of potential barriers” for the futurę years of the Decade.

Eugeniusz Kośmicki, Dariusz Pieńkowski: The fundamenta! problem of education for sustainable development: a technocratic or a reflective modernisation. The concept of modemisation belongs to the most important concepts of social Sciences. The phases of the modernisation process comprise: evolutionary modernisation (dominating in the 20th century, based on the hegemony of the advancement concept), technocratic modernisation based on a comprehensive opportunity to implement innovative techniques and technologies in economy and society, and a reflective modernisation. It is still the technocratic modemisation that dominates in Poland which is proved by poor successes in putting the concept of sustainable development into practice. The followers of the technocratic modernisation develop actions described as „greenwaching”. They commonly use social manipulation and ordinary disinformation, especially in the advertising actions.

Barbara Piontek: Axiology and the natural law in the education process. Axiology and the natural law together with the ąualities resulting from them ensure the cohesion of science and education. This article is aimed at describing the principal natural laws and axioms as well as indicating the meaning of axiology and the natural law for science and the educational processes with special focus on the socio-economic Sciences. It also presents the conseąuences for the development which may result from the negligence of axiology and the natural law in science and education.

Antoni Skowroński: Selected anthropocentric values in the education for sustainable development. The article addresses the issues of axiology and its practical implementation for the purposes of sustainable development education. The anthropocentric values which are aimed at developing and establishing the awareness of sustainable development taking into account the human perspective are underlined. A proper environmental education is required for that purpose which will not only teach but also shape the proper attitudes.

Franciszek Piontek: The main provisions in the Constitution of the Republic of Poland addressing sustainable development. The article indicates a constitutional fixation of the principle and concept of sustainable development (article 5, 20 and 30 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland) and the significance of these provisions for the science and the education process. Nevertheless, when doing science and education in practice, these provisions are frequently neglected and ignored. The consequences however have not been subject of evaluation from the viewpoint of complying with the Constitution.

Artur Pawłowski: The landscape of culture and sustainable development - education aspects. The study proposes a hierarchy of topical groups related to sustainable development which, beside the environmental, social and economic issues, includes also the issues of ethics. Implementation of sustainable development understood in this way requires appropriate educational programmes. They should support the recognition of communities with their own regions and landscape of culture which at the damę time enables its better protection.

Mieczysław Adamowicz, Anna Nowak: Education of the inhabitants as a social aspect of sustainable development on the example of the Lubuskie Voievodeship. The sustainable development concept comprises three dimensions: social, economic and environmental.