Chapter 12: Conclusions to Education Policy as a Road Map for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

The book Education Policy as a Road Map for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals presents A Blueprint for Character Development for Evolution (ABCDE). ABCDE is in five stages. (A) asks questions to get a sense of the problem/professional challenge; (B) explores different, even conflicting beliefs about the professional challenge; (C) provides methods to collect trustworthy data across sectors, nations, regions and globally; (D) tests hypotheses regarding (1) redistributing wealth or (2) creating opportunities and incentivising the socialisation of risks, investment and rewards for the means of production, below minimal harm, of public and private goods. Goods range from artisan to mass produced within sustainable ecosystems. The hypotheses are tested and benchmarked against pre-determined, specific, measurable (of both the effective and affective dimensions), realistic and timebound key performance indicators and (E) arrives at universal principles that inform theories of change for mobilising top-down state policy that incentivises socialised risk-taking, investment and rewards in the public, private and third sectors, coupled to regulations that both safeguard and empower grass-roots up innovation and achievement of each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target. Safeguarding includes impartial opportunities for mitigation at every stage of the process with adequate funding to protect innovators who may be challenging confused and irrational bureaucracies.