3. What is environmental education?
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced a
philosophy on environmental education
as early as the 18th
century in his work
Emile.
• Rousseau’s philosophy was echoed by
Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-born naturalist
who encouraged students to study nature
and not books.
4. What is environmental education?
• Rousseau and Agassiz
laid the foundation for a
concrete environmental
education program,
known as nature study,
which took place in the
late 19th
and early 20th
century.
5. What is environmental education?
• Environmental education is a process
by which people develop awareness,
concern and knowledge of the
environment and learn to use this
understanding to preserve, conserve and
utilize the environment in a sustainable
manner for the benefit of present and
future generations.
• It is intended for all types of learners, students,
out-of-school youth, community leaders, policy makers
and the general public to develop appropriate
environment-related skills.
6. Goals of Environmental Education
Main Goal: To develop concern and awareness
among world population about the total environment
and its associated problems.
▪ To improve the quality of the environment
▪ To create awareness among the people on
environmental problems and conservation
▪ To create an atmosphere so that people participate in
decision-making and develop the capabilities to
evaluate the developmental programs
7. Objectives of Environmental Education
1. AWARENESS: to help social groups and individuals
acquire an awareness of and sensitivity to the total
environment and its allied problems
2. KNOWLEDGE: to help social groups and individuals
gain a variety of experiences and acquire a basic
understanding of the environment and its associated
problems
3. ATTITUDES: to help social groups
and individuals acquire a set of values
and feeling of concern for the
environment and the motivation for
actively participating in environmental
improvement and protection
8. 4. SKILLS: to help social groups and individuals acquire
the skills for identifying and solving environmental
problems
5. PARTICIPATION: to provide
social groups and individuals
with an opportunity to be
actively involved at all levels
working towards the
resolution of environmental
problems
Objectives of Environmental Education
9. Aims of Environmental Education
To provide different groups of
people as well as graduates in a
variety of professional fields
with the knowledge needed to
develop a sense of responsibility
towards the environment and the
rational utilization of its riches.
To make use of these knowledge
and skills to preserve, conserve
and utilize the environment in a
sustainable manner for the
benefit of present and future
generations.
The second aim
involves learning how to
employ new
technologies, increase
productivity, avoid
environmental disasters,
alleviate poverty, utilize
new opportunities, and
work individually and
collectively toward the
solution of existing
environmental problems
and prevention of new
ones.
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10. Increases student
engagement in science
Improves student
achievement in core
subject areas
Provides critical tools for
a 21st
-century workforce
Helps address nature
deficit disorder
Importance of
Environmental
Education
11. Water pollution
Air pollution
Waste and land pollution
Climate change
The current environmental issues and concerns can
be categorized under four major areas, namely:
12. • Nature knows best. It has
the ability to regulate,
perpetuate and maintain its
balance and keep both
living and non-living
components stable.
• All forms of life are
equally important.
All living organisms
have the inherent right
to exist. All of them
play an important role
that is evident in the
food chain.
13. • Everything is
inter-connected.
Each organism
depends on other
organism to survive.
• Everything changes. Changes in nature produce new
life forms that are essential in maintaining the balance
of nature.
14. • Everything must go somewhere. This principle
remind us of the Law of Conservation which states
that matter cannot be created nor destroyed; it can only
be transformed.
• Ours is a finite Earth. This laws tells us that there are
limits to the population that an area can support to
prevent exhaustion of resources, and limits to the
amount of yield that an area can produce at a
particular time to maintain its ability to sustain life.
15. • Nature is beautiful and we
are stewards of God’s
creation. Humans are
merely borrowers of the
earth’s resources. As we are
the only one’s gifted with
the capacity to make use of
our intellect, we have also
been given the
responsi-bility to conserve
and protect nature which is
our source of existence and
sustenance.
16. If you’re thinking a year ahead, plant a seed.
If you are thinking a decade ahead, plant a tree.
If you are thinking a century ahead, educate the
people.
- Chinese proverb
