Environmental education is a social practice process centering on the relationship between human beings and the environment, aiming at solving environmental problems and realizing sustainable development, aiming at improving people's environmental awareness and effective participation ability, popularizing environmental protection knowledge and skills and cultivating environmental protection talents. In short, environmental education is an educational activity centered on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Environmental problems are caused by the rapid development of population growth, modern science and technology and modern productive forces. Therefore, human's concern for the deterioration of the living environment has led to the emergence of environmental education, and its initial motivation still comes from human's concern and cherish for their own lives.

Chinese name

environmental education

Foreign name

environmental education

core

The relationship between human and environment

purpose

Solve environmental problems and realize sustainable development

nature

Education to achieve the goal of environmental protection

quick

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The presentation and development of that characteristic of the basic goal guiding principle

definition

Environmental education refers to improving people's understanding of the environment and environmental problems through education. It can make people have a correct understanding of the relationship between people and the environment and mobilize all members of society to work together to protect the environment.

Environmental education is divided into general environmental education and professional environmental education. General environmental education is to help people acquire basic knowledge about the environment and environmental problems, stimulate people's enthusiasm for caring and caring for the environment, and enhance people's sense of responsibility and urgency in solving environmental problems. Professional environmental education lies in cultivating professionals with the ability to analyze the environment and solve environmental problems.

Basic object

The Tbilisi Declaration clearly states that the objectives of environmental education include: 1. Enhance people's understanding of the interdependence of urban and rural economy, society, politics and ecology; 2. Teach everyone the knowledge, values, attitudes, determination and skills needed to protect and improve the environment; 3. Create new behavior norms that are beneficial to the environment in individuals, groups and the whole society. [ 1]

guiding principle

1. regard the environment as a whole-natural and artificial environment, technology and social environment (economy, politics, cultural history, morality and aesthetics all belong to social environment) belong to a whole;

2. Environmental education should be lifelong education, starting from preschool education and continuing to all formal and informal education methods;

3. Teaching method is a comprehensive subject form, which extracts specific contents from each subject and forms a holistic and balanced view;

4. Analyze environmental problems from local, national, regional and international perspectives, so that students can understand the environmental conditions in different geographical areas;

5. The value and necessity of promoting local, national and international cooperation in the process of preventing and solving environmental problems;

6. In the process of development and economic growth, explicitly consider environmental factors;

7. Enable learners to plan their own learning experiences and give them the opportunity to make decisions and accept the results of the decisions;

8. Environmental awareness, knowledge, problem-solving ability and values should be taught to learners of all ages, but for younger students, more attention should be paid to the environmental awareness of local communities;

9. Help learners find the symptoms and root causes of environmental problems;

10. Emphasize the complexity of environmental problems, thus emphasizing the importance of critical thinking and problem-solving ability;

1 1. Use a variety of learning environments and teaching methods to understand the environment, learn in the environment, and emphasize the importance of practical activities and personal experience learning. [2][ 1]