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Environmental Education
Environmental Education is
directed at disseminating knowledge that will hopefully develop responsible behaviour
toward the environment. One widely accepted definition of EE states that:
EE is the process of recognising values and clarifying concepts in
order to develop skills and attitudes necessary to understand and appreciate the
inter-relatedness between man, his culture and his biophysical surroundings. EE also
entails practice in decision making and self-formulation of a code of behaviour about
issues concerning environmental quality.
Goals and objectives of Environmental Education are:
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To foster clear awareness of and concern about economic, social,
political and ecological interdependence in urban and rural areas.
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To provide every person with opportunities to acquire the knowledge,
values, attitudes, commitments, and skills needed to protect and improve the environment.
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To create new patterns of behaviour in individuals, groups and
society as a whole towards the environment.
Environmental Education has
become important to society as a type of education that will encourage economic
development activities in a way that will lead to minimal environmental deterioration.
Ideally, this form of education will lead to economic development and environmental
protection complementing each other, that is sustainable development.
Teachers & Environmental Education
As Environmental Education is
a relatively new concept and teachers have not been specifically trained on how to
incorporate it into the curriculum, Mokolodi Education Centre has recently created a
package aimed at exposing teachers to methods of infusing EE into the curriculum
effectively.
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