University of Mumbai�M.Ed Sem IV�Environmental Education �Unit 3 Founadtion of Environmental Education

Guided By:

Assistant.Prof .Dr. Arunadevi Kurane

Presented By :

Miss Gauri Shashikant Pawar

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Environmental Education

• Defination :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.
• According to UNISECO

“Environmental education is a way of implementing the goals of environmental protection. It is not a separate branch of science but lifelong interdisciplinary field of study.” It means education towards protection and enhancement of the environment and education as an instrument of development for improving the quality of life of human communities.

Importance of Environmental Education

Objective of Environmental Education

Principles of Environmental Education

Environmental Education based Tbilisi 1977 by UNESCO

• According to United Nations Education,Scientific, and Cultural Organization
• It is an declaration together with two of the recommendations of the conference constitutes the framework,principles and guidelines for environmental education at all levels-local,national,regional and international-and for all age groups both inside and outside the formal school system

Environmental Program

• Tbilisi Declaration (1977)
• The world's first intergovernmental conference on environmental education was organized by the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in cooperation with the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) and was convened in Tbilisi, Georgia (USSR) from October 14-26, 1977.��Delegates from 66 member states and observers from two nonmember states participated. Representatives and observers from eight U.N. agencies and programs also participated. Three other intergovernmental organizations and 20 international nongovernmental organizations also were represented. In all, 265 delegates and 65 representatives and observers took part in the conference.��The Tbilisi Declaration was adopted by acclamation at the close of the intergovernmental conference. The declaration noted the unanimous accord in the important role of environmental education in the preservation and improvement of the world's environment, as well as in the sound and balanced development of the world's communities.

When it was held

• Conference held at Tbilisi, Georgia,USSR in October 1977,on Educational Environment.
• Its significant was to put forward a much broader conception of environment with new definition and learning ideas

5 Tbilisi Principles

It helps in Foundation of Environmental Education

• Goals FEE aims to bring environmental education to people all over the world, through its member network, consisting of non-profit and non-governmental organizations. FEE seeks to provide people with knowledge and skills through its voluntary programmes, to enable people to be productive in their endeavours to protect the environment.

Tbilis Aim

Approach of Environmental Education

Interdisciplinary approach

Multidisciplinary approach

• ources o www.fee-international.org o http://www.blueflag.org/ o http://eco-schools.org/ o http://www.youngreporters.org/ http://www.youngreporters.org/ o http://leaf-international.org/ http://leaf-international.org/ o http://www.green-key.org/ �
• 12 Go to: www.fee-international.org

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