This is a one of the topic in UGC NET exam and also it is a relevant one

1. Environmental education and
awareness,
Environment ethics
Presented by,
Ananya babu
M Sc Environmental science

2. • Environmental education (EE) is the scientific
study of the environmental system and the
status of its inherent and 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 the environment.

3. Objectives of EE
According to UNESCO (1971)
1. Creating the awareness about
environmental problems among people.
2. Imparting basic knowledge about the
environment and its allied problems .
3. Developing an attitude of concern for the
environment .
4. Motivating public to participate in
environment protection and improvement.

4. 5. Acquiring skills to help the concerned
individuals in identifying and solving
environmental problems.
6. Striving to attain harmony with nature.
7. To develop feeling, attitude and values for
improving environments.
8. To inculate skills for the effective participation
for solving problems .
9. To prepare for evaluating the educational
programmes for their effectiveness .

5. Environmental education
Knowledge
Attitude
Skills
Evaluation
Participation
Awareness

6. EE can be imparted in two ways:
 Formal Education
1. The NPE states
(National Policy On Education)
It must permeate all ages and
all sections of society ,
beginning with the child and
integrated in the entire
educational process .
2. Primary level
3. Lower secondary level
 Non-formal Education
• It includes
organization of extra-
curricular activities
like ecological
principles and solving
environmental
problems after
identifying the causes
of the ecological
problems

7. Example for Non formal education
•The Vikram Sarabhai Community Center, Ahmedabad
involved children carrying out experiments and surveys and
the centre for environmental education has evolved a water
monitoring kit for secondary school students under Ganga
Pollution Control Programme
•Arts and crafts, folk dances, ballet and street plays are also
used to impart informal environmental education by many
organisations such as Bal Bhavan Society, Shantiniketan

8. IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
(EE)
• EE is a process enabling individuals and groups to
understand the environment, to enhance skills and to
develop values and attitudes necessary for anticipating and
solving environmental problems.
• Education of the environment is to promote students to
have a lifelong concern for the environment
• EE, is important for promoting sustainable development
and improving the capacity of people to address
environment and development issues.
• EE must strongly promote the need for personal initiatives
and social participation to achieve sustainability.

9. ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
• It may be defined as to help the social groups and
individuals to gain a variety of experiences in and
acquired a basic understanding of environment
and its associated problems
• Also it provide the understanding and
competence to recognise environmental
resources and interdependence between physical
and biological components of the environment
for the growth and development.

10. Environment can be classified into four
basic component.
1. Physical component
2. Biological component
3. Human uses
4. Human values
Therefore, ‘environment awareness’ is inter-
relations and interactions between the living
system and life

11. ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
• It defines the moral basis of environmental
responsibility.
• The society has the environmental
responsibility to ensure that the earth is kept
hospitable and pleasant for human beings
• The environment deserves care and
consideration
• An ethics can be defined as ‘ a limitation on
freedom of action’ (Leopold, 1949).

12. • Ethics is a branch of philosophy, which seeks to
define fundamentally what is right and wrong
regardless of cultural differences.
• For example, most cultures have a reverence for
life and feel that all individual have a right to live.
• Moral differs somewhat from ethics because
morals reflect the predominant feeling of a
culture about ethical issues.
• Eg; when a country declares war, most of its
people accept the necessity of killing the enemy.

13. Most of the attitudes towards the environment
can be divided into following three group
• It considers nature in special is itself
and should be preserved at social and
economic cost
Preservation
ethic
• It assumes that human race in and
should be the master of nature and
that the earth and its resources exist
for our benefit and pleasure
Development
ethic
• It is related to scientific preservationist view,
but extends the rational consideration to the
entire and for all times
• It stresses a balance between total
development and absolute preservation
Conservation
ethic

14. According to Darwin (1904), all the ethics
evolved so far rest upon a single premise the
individual is a member of a community of
interdependent parts.
i. Every human being should make conservation of
environment his primary duty.
ii. We should not be blind folded. This is a wrong
conception that human ingenuity will always be
able to come up with technological advances,
that will solve our problems. We have to avoid
thinking about it.

15. iii. This is a wrong belief that whatever will be
and we have no control over our actions and
the future. We can do anything only humans
have got the capacity to change whatever is
going on around him.
iv. The belief that, if I can’t change the entire
world quickly. I won’t try to change any of it
should be completely discarded. In fact
everyone should try to conserve environment
in any way, then only we will be able to bring
more and more people into the cause

16. v. People should make themselves ecologically
knowledgeable, they should specialise in
various areas of environmental problems
they should spread this knowledge and
concern among others also.
vi. We should become emotionally involved in
caring for the earth by experiencing nature
directly and by trying to find a place that you
love and must defend because we all are part
of it

17. vii. Conserving environment and reducing
environmental problems should become part
of our lifestyle
viii.We should politically and socially involved in
both local and national levels for national
and global environmental problems

18. 1) Objectives and guiding principles of
environmental education were first
formulated in 1977 at which places?
a. New Delhi
b. Bangalore
c. Stockholm
d. Tbilisi

19. 2. Head office of Centre for Environmental
education (CEE) is located at
a. Ahmadabad
b. New Delhi
c. Bhopal
d. Coimbatore

20. 3. To generate environmental awareness,
‘paryavaran vahini scheme’ was launched in
a. 1990
b. 1992
c. 1980
d. None of these

21. 4. What does the phrase ‘environment
sustainability’ imply?
a. A shared global responsibility is necessary for
quality of life
b. The actions of human directly impacting the well
being of the natural environment
c. Future generations will have the resources
necessary for quality of life
d. All of the above

22. 5. Objectives of environmental education are
knowledge, attitude, skill, awareness,
evaluation and
a. Education
b. Partition
c. Participation
d. None of these

23. 6. Environment education can be divided into
following .......groups.
a. 4
b. 3
c. 2
d. 1

24. 7. The different levels of environmental and
conservation awareness are
a. Consumption, overpopulation
b. Pollution and environmental degradation
c. Sustainable earth
d. All of the above

25. Thank you!