Environmental Education
- May 12, 2018
- Posted by: RSIS
- Category: Environmental Science
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume V, Issue IV, April 2018 | ISSN 2321–2705
Albert Horo
DESSH, Regional Institute of Education, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
Abstract: Environmental problems are basically concerned withan understanding of the environmental mechanism which includes the people. The environment issues are being studied by ever increasing number of disciplines, institutions and individuals. Environment Education is in one sense an integrating discipline bringing together teaching in science, social science, mathematics, to name a few. At the same time it is a perspective – a way of looking at things of analyzing and evaluating. It has during the past decades that an awareness of the need for a harmonious relationship with nature as becomes concretized. While Science has been responsible for the larger extent of damage done to ecology, abetted to a great degree by men’s innate avarice, it is nonetheless science itself that has pointed out the damages inflicted on Nature and man’s ecosystem in all these centuries of exploitation. Environment Education has finally coin home to stay as a permanent component of the school curriculum.
Keywords: Environment, Disaster Management, Curriculum, Conservation.
The environment crisis is an outward manifestation of a crisis of mind and spirit ….the crisis is concerned with the kind of creature we are and what we must become in order to survive.
Lynton K. Coldwell
I. INTRODUCTION
The foundation of this understanding within the school system and curriculum are one of the indispensable structures and frameworks through which the section of school going children can be reached and addressed.After the Tbilisi Conference (1977) call for consciousness of the environmental problems and understanding about the interrelationships between environment and human beings was recognized. Environment has been an area of great concern to our society and on the other hand Education is an active process with a positive approach. Education makes an individual sensitive to own surroundings and enables to relish values in life and inculcate in a catholicity of outlook. Environmental factors shape the individuals development. Education thus means much more than giving mere instruction. It brings out the capabilities and potentialities of the child and channelises them mere towards a higher and nobler life. Everyday a group add to the already, overcrowded number. Perhaps this has never been so much attention on a single focus.
