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.
Guiding principles include but are not limited to:
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 advocating local, national and international cooperation in the process of preventing and solving environmental problems.
Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Environmental Education