designed for electronic repair or assembly facilities to protect ESD sensitive components during the soldering process.

1. TOWARDS A GREEN SCHOOL
AND EDUCATION FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Prepared by: Mary Grace E. Regencia

2. - School play a great role in the development of academics
but also environmental ethics and care for nature among
students. The school environment, therefore, should
encourage, support and nurture students capacities on
green environmentas integrated in the curriculum and
instruction. Environmental issues and concerns can be
effectively addressedwhen all efforts of staff and students
are geared toward adopting environmentally sustainable
principles at all levels.

3. GREEN SCHOOL: The concept and background
The concept of green school was introduced in
Europe in the 1990s while the Rio Earth Summit of 1992
took cognizance of the need to take action in every area
in which human impacts on the environment. The World
Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in
Johannesburgin 2002 catalyzed the efforts to bring
about a shift in ‘educating about environment’ to
‘educating for sustainability’.

4. Green Schools and ESD
The Green Schools is visualize as a
schools guided by the principles of
environmental sustainability. Students
learning experiences outside school help
them to consolidate and apply knowledge,
gain understanding of environmental
processes, interrelations and issues,
acquire life skills and help foster attitudes,
values and sensitivity toward
environmental concerns.

5. Essential aspects of Green School Environment
The ‘greenness’ of a school finds expressions in varios aspects of
the environment. The Green Schools has clean, healthy,
protective and green sorroundings. It also promotes both the
physical and psychosocial health of learnersand others in school;
ensure a healthy (provision of health services, such as nutritional
supplementation and counseling), hygienic (safe drinking water,
neat and clean classrooms, playgrounds and etc.), safe learning
environment with healthy practices (e.g a school free of drugs,
corporal punishment and harassment); and brings childrencloser
to nature and involves them in taking care of it.

6. A Green School adheres to the following precepts:
1. Learning
about the
environment
It focuses mainly on
acquisitionof knowledgeand
understandingof the
sorroundings and related
issues.

7. 2. Learning throug
the environment
It refers to the
processes of learning
while being engage with
environment inside and
outsidethe classroom.

8. 3. Learning for
the environment
It aims at developing an
informed response and
responsibility towards the
environment beyond
acquisition of skills and
knowledge.

9. Understanding Green Curriculum
For a curriculum to be ‘GREEN’ it must include the following
aspects.
1. Environment is encompassing, multidisciplinary and
dynamic, has scientific, social economic, political and
technological dimensions.
2. Being holistic, a Green Curriculum views environment as all
that is around and aims to give a better understanding of
the way the world functions its operations, its alteration
because of the actions of human race andits
consequences.

10. 3. It holistically addresses sustainability concerns, such as
protection and conservation of natural resources, traditions, culture
and heritage, safety and security, physical and emotional
assurance, health and sanitation issues, concern for equity and
justice and interconnection between and among natural, social,
physical and cultural environment.
4. This requires a teaching-learningapproach where students are
provided time and spaceto explore different facets of environment
and interconnect them.
5. A Green Curriculum is a mutual concern of teachers and
students.

11. REFERENCES:
Building and Inhancing
New Literacies Across the
Curriculum (page 165-
167)

12. THANKS