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Education is my field of study. I study pedagogy, curriculum, textbooks, examination systems and others. Recently I was working for development of science textbooks, and what I found was quite a scattering image.
In most of the textbooks in Bangladesh, we mostly provide information about environment, without practical experience. Researches say, this is one of the reason, students these days are less careful and curious about nature. As I studied some textbooks of other countries, specially Japanese text book, it was quite a good way to introduce children with the nature. In example, I may say, the textbook asks the children if they have seen the flower called dandelion. The textbook itself suggests the children to find the flower and study its color, size, type. This type of textbook editing encourages the children to know more about nature, to explore, to improvise. Same goes for pollution, agriculture, botany, zoology and other subject areas those require students' active participation, site seeing. Textbooks in Bangladesh is about to change. The change has already started with grade 3 textbook which was guided and supported by JICA and other organizations. I hope this change is brought to all the countries to engage children in nature, to encourage them to nourish the environment. |
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I also always prefer outside classroom. Much better to interact with environment itself. =)
Posted 04-09-2015 12:36
I am happy about this change . Assignment based environmental education is much better than theoretical study on environment as it brings students closer to nature and give them real feel of nature's beauty. Thanks for sharing , Tapashi.
Posted 03-09-2015 04:24