Environmental Education Guide

MAEDU:310-ENVIRONMNETAL
EDUCATION
By
Dr. M.RAJENDRA NATH BABU
M.A(Soc),M.A, M.Sc(Maths), M.Sc(Psy), M.Ed, M.Phil, Ph.D, NET-JRF&SRF(U.G.C),PGDCA
Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER EDUCATION
NAGALAND UNIVERSITY
KOHIMA CAMPUS
mrnb.svu@gmail.com
9/25/2017 mrnb.svu@gmail.com

 Nature ,Meaning and Importance of ENVIRONMNETAL
EDUCATION
 Education for environmental awareness and attitude change
 Ecological
 Psychological Perspective
 Sustainable Development
UNIT-I: ENVIRONMNETAL EDUCATION AND
AWARENESS
UNIT-II: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND
ENVIRONMNET

 Primary Level
 Secondary Level
 Higher Educational Institutions
 Nature and Man-made Disasters
 Global Warming and Climate Change
 Education for coping with the environmental stressors
UNIT-III: PROGRAMMES OF ENVIRONMNETAL
EDUCATION
UNIT-IV: ENVIRONMNETAL STRESSORS

 Environmental Projects at the International Level: Rio Summit,
Kyoto Protocol, etc.
 Environmental Projects at the National Level
 Environmental Projects at the Regional / State Level.
UNIT-V: STUDY OF ENVIRONMNETAL PROJECTS

 The sum total of all surroundings of a living organism, including
natural forces and other living things, which provide conditions
for development and growth as well as of danger and damage.
 A) The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans.
 B) A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem: the coastal
environment.
 C) The combination of external physical conditions that affect and
influence the growth, development, behaviour, and survival of
organisms.
 D) The complex of social and cultural conditions affecting the
nature of an individual person or community.
Environment

 The word "Education" has been derived from the Latin term "Educatum"
which means the act of teaching or training.
 It has come from another Latin word "Educare" which means "to bring
up" or "to raise”.
 The word "Education" has originated from another Latin term "Educere"
which means "to lead forth" or "to come out".
 Education seeks to develop the innate inner capacities of man.
 Rigved: "Education is something which makes man self-reliant and
selfless".
 Upanishad: "Education is for liberation".
 Bhagavad Gita: "Nothing is more purifying on earth than wisdom”.
 Shankaracharya: "Education is the realization of self‘.
Education

 Kautilya: "Education means training of the country and love of the
nation".
 Panini: "Human education means the training which one gets from
nature".
 Vivekanand: “Education is the manifestation of the divine perfection,
already existing in man.“
 Gandhi: "By education, I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in
the Child and man body, mind and spirit.“
 Tagore: "The widest road leading to the solution of all our problems is
education.“
 Sri Aurobindo: "Education which will offer the tools whereby one can live
for the divine, for the country, for oneself and for others and this must be
the ideal of every school which calls itself national“.
Education

 Socrates: "Education means the bringing out of the ideas of universal validity which
are latent in the mind of every man".
 Plato: "Education is the capacity to feel pleasure and pain at the right moment. It
develops in the body and in the soul of the pupil all the beauty and all the perfection
which he is capable of.“
 Aristotle: "Education is the creation of a sound mind in a sound body. It develops
man's faculty, especially his mind so that he may be able to enjoy the contemplation
of supreme truth, goodness and beauty of which perfect happiness essentially
consists.
 Rousseau: "Education of man commences at his birth; before he can speak, before he
can understand he is already instructed. Experience is the forerunner of the perfect".
 Herbert Spencer: "Education is complete living".
 Heinrich Pestalozzi: "Education is natural harmonious and progressive development
of man's innate powers".
 Friedrich Willian Froebel: "Education is unfoldment of what is already enfolded in
the germ. It is the process through which the child makes internal external“.
Education

 Environmental Education (EE) is a process in which individuals gain
awareness of their environment and acquire knowledge, skills, values,
experiences, and also the determination, which will enable them to
act - individually and collectively - to solve present and future
environmental problems.
 EE is a complex process, covering not just events, but a strong underlying
approach to society building as a whole. EE provides people with the awareness
needed to build partnerships, understand NGO activities, develop participatory
approaches to urban planning, and ensure future markets for eco-business.
 Environmental education is a learning process that increases people’s knowledge
and awareness about the environment and associated challenges, develops the
necessary skills and expertise to address the challenges, and fosters attitudes,
motivations, and commitments to make informed decisions and take responsible
action (UNESCO, Tbilisi Declaration, 1978).
Environmental Education

 Environmental education enhances critical thinking, problem-solving, and effective
decision-making skills, and teaches individuals to weigh various sides of an
environmental issue to make informed and responsible decisions. Environmental
education does not advocate a particular viewpoint or course of action.
 Environmental education is a process that allows individuals to explore
environmental issues, engage in problem solving, and take action to improve the
environment. As a result, individuals develop a deeper understanding of
environmental issues and have the skills to make informed and responsible decisions.
 The components of environmental education are:
 Awareness and sensitivity to the environment and environmental challenges
 Knowledge and understanding of the environment and environmental challenges
 Attitudes of concern for the environment and motivation to improve or maintain
environmental quality
 Skills to identify and help resolve environmental challenges
 Participation in activities that lead to the resolution of environmental challenges
Environmental Education

 Environmental Protection Act (1986) defined “Environment as the sum
total of water, air and land, their interrelationship among themselves
and with the human beings, other living beings and property.”
Environment and Education

 Environmental studies are the scientific study of the environmental
system and the status of its inherent or induced changes on organisms. It
includes not only the study of physical and biological characters of the
environment but also the social and cultural factors and the impact of
man on environment.
Meaning of Environmental studies

 According to UNESCO (1971), the objectives of environmental studies are:
 (a) Creating the awareness about environmental problems among people.
 (b) Imparting basic knowledge about the environment and its allied
problems.
 (c) Developing an attitude of concern for the environment.
 (d) Motivating public to participate in environment protection and
environment improvement.
 (e) Acquiring skills to help the concerned individuals in identifying and
solving environmental problems.
 (f) Striving to attain harmony with Nature.
Objectives & Guiding Principles of Environmental Studies

 According to UNESCO, the guiding principles of environmental education should be as follows:
 (a) Environmental education should be compulsory, right from the primary up to the post
graduate stage.
 (b) Environmental education should have an interdisciplinary approach by
including physical, chemical, biological as well as socio-cultural aspects of
the environment. It should build a bridge between biology and technology.
 (c) Environmental education should take into account the historical
perspective, the current and the potential historical issues.
 (d) Environmental education should emphasise the importance of
sustainable development i.e., economic development without degrading the
environment.
 (e) Environmental education should emphasise the necessity of seeking international
cooperation in environmental planning.
 (f) Environmental education should lay more stress on practical activities and first
hand experiences.
Objectives & Guiding Principles of Environmental Studies

 Scope and Importance of Environmental Studies:
 The disciplines included in environmental education are environmental sciences, environmental
engineering and environmental management.
 (a) Environmental Science:
 It deals with the scientific study of environmental system (air, water, soil and land), the inherent or
induced changes on organisms and the environmental damages incurred as a result of human
interaction with the environment.
 (b) Environmental Engineering:
 It deals with the study of technical processes involved in the protection of environment from the
potentially deleterious effects of human activity and improving the environmental quality for the health
and well beings of humans.
 (c) Environmental Management:
 It promotes due regard for physical, social and economic environment of the enterprise or projects. It
encourages planned investment at the start of the production chain rather than forced investment in
cleaning up at the end.
 It generally covers the areas as environment and enterprise objectives, scope, and structure of the
environment, interaction of nature, society and the enterprise, environment impact assessment,
economics of pollution, prevention, environmental management standards etc.
Scope and Importance of Environmental studies

 The importance’s of environmental studies are as follows:
 1. To clarify modern environmental concept like how to conserve
biodiversity.
 2. To know the more sustainable way of living.
 3. To use natural resources more efficiently.
 4. To know the behaviour of organism under natural conditions.
 5. To know the interrelationship between organisms in
populations and communities.
 6. To aware and educate people regarding environmental issues
and problems at local, national and international levels.
Scope and Importance of Environmental studies

 Need of Public Awareness about Environment:
 In today’s world because of industrialization and increasing population, the
natural resources has been rapidly utilised and our environment is being
increasingly degraded by human activities, so we need to protect the
environment.
 It is not only the duty of government but also the people to take active role for
protecting the environment, so protecting our environment is economically
more viable than cleaning it up once, it is damaged.
 The role of mass media such as newspapers, radio, television, etc is also very
important to make people aware regarding environment. There are various
institutions, which are playing positive role towards environment to make people
aware regarding environment like BSI (Botanical Survey of India, 1890), ZSI
(Zoological Survey of India, 1916), WII (Wild Life Institute of India, 1982) etc.
Need of Public Awareness about Environment

 Environmental Awareness: - Environmental awareness refers to information, conscious
and sensitive state of an individual about environment and its allied problems along with
measures for protection. Environment awareness means pure knowledge & understanding
of environment and applied knowledge for solving various environmental problems.
 Environment cover all outside factors that have acted on the individual since he began life
on earth. At the Belgrade international workshop (1957) working documents were provided
by the trend papers that described the state of the art of the environmental education in all
parts of the world and provisions to extend and explore the environmental awareness, it
also states a study shows that environmental awareness may provide power and
understanding of some objectives of environmental education that is
 To recognize the interdependence among living and non-living things.
 To take decisions individually and collectively and initiate for conservation of nature and
natural resources.
 To make people about effective use of environmental resources.
Environmental Awareness

 COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENT:
 Environmental factors may be biotic components (living
organisms) and Abiotic components (non-living variables).
 Biotic component: Biotic components are the living things
that form an ecosystem .Any living component that affects
another organism is known as biotic factor.
 Abiotic components are non –living compound and physical
elements in the environment.
 Components of environment can be listed into 4 major
aspects- Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere and
Biosphere.
Components of Environment

 Environment awareness and understanding among the people are, at once
conscious of environmental education. An approach that emphasizes upon local
issue, rather than global once, is often more effective in promoting public
interest and understanding. This may account, in part, for the success of non-
formal community environmental education and local environmental
communication programmer in sensitizing people about the loss of natural
resources & make them aware about environmental issues in both urban and
rural areas.
 A number of environmental problems have just a local dimension both in rural
and urban areas. People should be made aware of the use of water, electricity,
detergents, chemicals, plastic, steel, wood etc. above this level come the
localities, villages and their common properties and small towns. People should
be encouraged in tree plantation and maintenance, social forestry,
environmental education, extension programmers etc.
Environmental Awareness and understanding

 ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
 Educational institutions play a very important role in
spreading awareness among the mass and these efforts help
in the Student awareness to student participation for
achieves public awareness to public participation.
 Environmental education in schools is taught as a separate
subject by following the syllabus framed by NCERT since
2004.
 The main objectives of imparting environmental awareness
in school curriculum is to great awareness & knowledge,
developing positive attitude & preparing students for
participating in solving various environmental problems.
Role of Educational institutions

 Environmental awareness refers to awareness about various problems related to
environment. We should understand that improvement in the environment automatically
improves the quality of life. It is not only a question of air and water pollution. It includes
elimination of disease, hunger, malnutrition and poverty, destruction of waste. Hence
there is an urgent need for proper management of the environment. The main hurdle is
that there is a lack of scientific knowledge and the will to act. In such a position society
needs to be convinced of the importance of environment and we have to rely the fact that
the way we live, will determine our future. Role of Non- Governmental organization (NGO,
s) voluntary organizations help the government regarding some Local environment issues.
Some of their functions are as follows:
 They can be very effective in organizing Public movements for the protection of
environment through awareness programmes or courses.
 Chipkoo Aandolan‟ for conservation of trees.
 “Sastra Sahitaya Parishad” for science and environmental awareness research and
extension work.
 The recent report by CSE on use of excess pesticides in the Cola drinks sensitizes the
people all over the country.
Environment Education and Awareness

 ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS: POLICY IMPLICATIONS
 As government develops and revises national plans for environment and
sustainable development which needs to be increasingly considered and
integrated. Environmental education enables individuals to gain awareness
about their environment. They also acquire and exchange the knowledge, values,
skills etc which enable them to act, individually and collectively to solve all
present and future problems. To achieve policy goals, government have at their
disposal strict command and control instruments such as taxes, levies, subsidies,
and laws as well as soft instruments such instruction, education, information,
advertising and public relations.
 As a policy instrument, education is effective only then:
 1. The target is an identifiable and reachable.
 2. The policy is clear, effective and legitimate.
 3. The source is credible and legitimate.
 4. The behavior requested is practicable, visibly helps solve the problems, has
low individual cost, and is subject to control.
Environmental Awareness

 ROLE OF MEDIA IN CREATING ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
 One of the most effective ways of spreading awareness among largest possible
audience in the world and diverse country like India is mass media & vernacular
press.
 Maximum environmental documentaries show on TV today attracts few viewers
because of the academic or pedantic manner in features on environmental
issues, they usually superficially researched and poorly written. Various issues
like pollution, climate change etc. the media has been playing a vital role in
creating awareness and raise issue to the pertaining topic of the environment.
 The media covers each corner of our country for spreading awareness about
environmental issues like drought in Gujrat, pollution in the capital
metropolitan cities, Chennai ground water level depletion and pollution from
coal mines in Jharia, west Bengal. It is still to be confirming that the role of mass
media is one of the most important factors spreading awareness about
environmental problems.

 METHODS TO PROPAGATE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS:
 Various stages and methods than can be useful in raising environmental awareness among
different strata of the society are given below:
 Inculcating among students with the help of education: It is excellent step that at present, all
over the state/country we are introducing environmental education as a compulsory subject at all
stage including high school, higher secondary and college level which will be beneficial for all
young generations.
 Role of electronic media & Press :The role of media is very important in spreading awareness
among the masses on environmental issues through plantation campaigns , awareness rallies,
Dramatization, real eco- disaster stories etc. Further TV serials are playing effective role in
propagation of environmental awareness amongst the people of all age groups.
 The society plays the most important role in shaping the future of the country, it is very
important to give them the decision maker for necessary orientation and training through
specially organized seminars, workshops and other training programmes etc.
 Publication of environment related resources material in form of brochure, advertising
pamphlets or booklets published by ministry of environment &forests, Govt. of India can also
help in keeping environment save.

 Environmental Attitude: Environmental Attitude a learned predisposition to respond consistently
favorable or unfavorable manner with respect to the environment” (Uitto, 2004).
 Areas of Attitude
 Social Change- social change refers to an alteration in the social order of a society. Social change may
include changes in nature, social institutions, social behaviors, or social relations.
 Social Distance- Social distance describes the distance between different groups of society and is
opposed to location distance.
 Liberalism- The concept of liberalism suggests a particular account of the development of liberal
thought. It suggests that liberalism was at one point in time an influential political ideology, but that it
at some point lost some of its significance, only to revive itself in more recent times in a new form.
 Nationalism- “Nationalism is in itself neither good nor bad, as little as capitalism, socialism or
imperialism is.” But several authors distinguish between two kinds of nationalism, which in fact are
“good” and “bad”.
 Social Revolution- This can partially be ascribed to the fact that nothing is so contrary to existing
interest and prejudices as this concept, and partially to the fact that few things are so ambiguous.
 Untouchability- Untouchability is a direct product of the caste system. It is not merely the inability to
touch a human being of a certain caste or sub-caste

 Environmental awareness of teachers
 Definition of environment and objectives of
environmental education
 Natural resource
 Biodiversity
 Energy
 Pollution
 Environmental issues

Dr. M.RAJENDRA NATH BABU
M.A(Soc),M.A, M.Sc(Maths), M.Sc(psy), M.Ed, M.Phil, Ph.D,
NET-JRF(UGC),PGDCA
Assistant Professor
Department of Teacher Education
Nagaland University
Kohima Campus
mrnb.svu@gmail.com
mrajendranathbabu@gmail.com
09440858111

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