Environmental Education
It is perhaps misleading to describe briefly the issue of Environmental Education because it is being discussed, shaped and redefined continuously for decades.
We believe, however, that it is very important for any teacher who intends to get involved in this, to know, some elements even briefly. And because we are crossing the «Decade for Education and for Sustainable Development», references to the controversial term sustainability are being made.
The Environmental Education has now incorporated complex problems that have been developed for both the environment and education. Such concerns have led to the adoption of the term sustainability, but also in a critical way of training, holistic, systemic and interdisciplinary-cross-curricular nature.
Definitions for Environmental Education
"Environmental Education is the process of identification of values and clarification of concepts for the development of skills and attitudes necessary for the understanding and appreciation of the interrelationship of human, culture and biophysical environment. It also exercises in decision-making and the formulation of a code of conduct of each person around the problems relating to the quality of the environment."
Source
I.U.C.N. (ed.), International Working Meeting on Environmental Education in the School Curriculum, Carson City-Nevada, U.S.A. June/July 1970.
"Environmental Education is an ongoing process by which individuals and social groups will be aware of their environment and acquire knowledge, values, skills, experience and also the willingness to allow them to act individually and collectively to solve the current and future environmental problems."
Source
Unesco (éd.), Strategie Internationale d' action en matiere d' éducation et de formation relatives a l' environnement pour les anées 1990. U.N.E.S.C.O.-U.N.E.P. Congrés. Environmental education and training, (MOCKBA 1987), Nairobi-Paris 1988.