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Environmental education is the process of integrating knowledge relating to sustainable development, climate change and environmental engineering into the educational curriculum of schools and colleges in order to create a generation of minds that understands the challenges we face and is equipped with the know-how to tackle these challenges.
Over the past few years, thanks to the Stockholm Declaration, Belgrade Charter and Tbilisi Declaration environmental education has gained momentum and has been integrated into courses offered at high school as well as college level. There are over 173 masters level courses on this area of research in the UK alone and thousands more in the USA. In India, under the Ministry of Environment and Forests' mandate, an Environment Education Centre (EEC) was set up to understand and mitigate a wide range of environmental issues that a big country like India faces, including but not limited to, global warming, expanding population, recurring diseases and widespread poverty. In 2004, a Supreme Court order made it mandatory for all levels of education to have environmental science as a subject. With this order as a background, the EEC has been focused on preparing curriculum for textbooks followed in schools, and has actively conducted teacher training workshops to enable the county's teaching faculty to have access to cutting edge research in the field of environmental science. In the last decade, the country has seen an active involvement of the youth, especially students of high schools and undergraduate programs, in tackling global environmental issues that plague our society. Students have been actively participating in awareness programs, research pods, conferences and seminars which focus to find solutions to these issues. The youth of the nation aren't afraid to raise their voices, against anything that they deem as harmful to the pristine environment gifted to us by Nature. Hopefully, with environmental education picking pace, we will see a generation that is more sound when making impactful decisions, more adaptable and more eco-friendly with an ultimate goal of protecting our planet hardwired into them. |
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Previous : Mola-Mola
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a good move
Posted 01-02-2018 23:13
should be given to people at large
Posted 01-02-2018 23:12
Thank you for the kind word Stephanie.
Posted 25-10-2017 02:42
Thank you very much for your report, dear Anishka! I also think that environmental education is very important in our days.
Posted 09-10-2017 14:34
Hi, Ramal! Thank you for your report on environmental education. I personally think that environmental education is one of the most effective ways to save our environment. One of the largest causes of pollution is pollution from everyday exhaust, wastewater, and litter. Also, most people do not have governmental or environmental jobs they are regular (maybe a bit passionate :)) citizens, like you and I. Educating people on how to clean and protect our environment will make a big difference, as (a) everyone can take a part in environmental activities and (b) there will be far less pollution caused in the first place, as people become more aware. Nice work on your report!
Posted 01-10-2017 18:22
Thanks a lot for your views Jihyeon :)
Posted 01-10-2017 03:22
I definitely agree with your opinion. Environmental education is essential for us to understand our environments precisely so to find out a proper solution to solve those problems or bottlenecks we've been facing. As a sustainable development is recent popular issues throughout the world, we must understand various global environment issues and continuously participate in increasing our awareness of protecting this beautiful planet. Thanks for your report!!
Posted 27-09-2017 21:50
Thanks a lot Anishka.
Posted 27-09-2017 04:01
Well reported article. Environment education is the only step to bring change in the attitude of common people towards the environment. Apart from school, environment education should percolate to each and every strata of society.
Posted 24-09-2017 23:22