Brazil - Rain Forest Corridors Project
Boh, Bojana
This paper focuses on the status of and issues in secondary school environmental education. Based on analysis and discussion of examples and key studies, the paper provides recommendations for improvements, especially in relation to natural science teaching. The common environmental problems are discussed in order to identify environmental education needs. Environmental secondary curricula are analyzed, and suggestions are improvements are made. Two possible approaches to introduction of environmental education into school curricula are discussed--the integral and the infusion approaches--and examples are given of different possibilities for infusing environmental topics into teaching of science. Besides, examples of methodological approaches are presented. Status and strategies of pre-service and in-service environmental teacher training are summarized, followed by an analysis of environmental curricula in teacher training. Deficiencies are identified and suggestions are listed for supplementing and/or upgrading both, the environmental content and the methodology source for secondary school science teachers. The World Bank's efforts in environmental education are summarized, with the proposal to introduce/strengthen the environmental components of the Bank's educational projects in developing countries. Finally, examples of environmentally-related science curricula, teaching units and practical activities are given in 10 cases studies together with a bibliography.
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