1. Dr. S. SUMITHRA
Assistant Professor
Sri Raaja Raajan College of Education for Women
Amaravathiputhur, Karaikudi,
Sivagangai(District) - Tamil Nadu
Topic: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
2. ENVIRONMENT -MEANING
ENVIRONMENT -MEANING
• Environment is a surrounding External conditions influencing development or growth of people,
animals or plants.
• The sum total of all surroundings of a living organism, including natural forces and other living
things, which provide conditions for development and growth as well as danger and damage.
3. SURROUNDING
SURROUNDING
Living things and Non living things in general man in particular.
1.Living things:
Eg: Animals, Plants, Insects, Birds and etc
2.Non living things:
Eg: Minerals, soil, light ,temp and etc..
4. COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENT
COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENT
Abiotic factors
Biotic factors
All abiotic factors or conditions like temperature, light, rainfall, soil, minerals etc. It comprises of
atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere.
Biotic environment includes :
All biotic factors or living forms like plants, animals, Micro-organisms.
5. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION-MEANING
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION-MEANING
• Is a process by which people develop awareness concern and knowledge of the environment, and
learn to use this understanding to preserve, conserve and utilize the environment in a sustainable
manner for the benefit of present and future generations.
6. Environmental education- Definition
Environmental education- Definition
• ‘Education is critical for promoting sustainable development and improving the capacity of people to address
environment and development issues. It is also critical for achieving environmental and ethical awareness, values
and attitudes, skills and behaviour consistent with sustainable development and for effective public participation
in decision –making .’(Hart.etal 1999)
7. CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
1. Education for the environment
2. Education about the environment
3. Education through the environment
Education for the environment: Environment education is a kind of education which will seek to make
pupils fully aware of the problems connected with the environment so that they will be able to tackle
these problems with a sense of responsibility and with the technical skills which will enable them to
contribute to their solutions along with other members of the community.
8. CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Education about the environment: Environmental education includes conservation, outdoor and natural
resource education as well as nature study but it also includes everything that relates to man and his
environment. Man not his technology, not the physical or biological world as a separate entity , not
the arts or perfections operating in segregated spheres, but all of these as they effect the quality of
human life, become the pivotal concern. He is only the conscious manipulator of the environment and
his manipulation must b directed towards enhancing the quality of environment.
9. CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Education through the Environment: Environment education is not a separate subject. It is a multi-
disciplinary approach both to education and to the problems of environment. The entire subject in the
existing curriculum does have some information pertaining to environment but in their present form
the subjects fail to relate to one another. Just a piecemeal attacks on environmental problems are
ineffective so is piecemeal education about the environment inadequate because it does not take to
account the independence of the pieces. Environment education should result in the knowledge,
desires and ability necessary to direct one’s conduct toitsfard improving the quality of life.
10. GOALS OF ENVIORMENTAL EDUCATION
GOALS OF ENVIORMENTAL EDUCATION
• To create the awareness among people on environmental problems and conservations
• To improve the quality of environment
• To create an atmosphere so that the people participate in decision making and develop the capabilities
• To evaluate the developmental problems
11. OBJECTIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
OBJECTIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Awareness
Knowledge
Attitude
Skills
Participation
12. OBJECTIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
OBJECTIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
• AWARENESS: Acquire on awareness of sensitivity to the total environment and its allied problems
• KNOWLEDGE: Gain a variety of experiences and acquire a basic understanding of the
environmental and its associated problems
• ATTITUDE: Acquire a set of values and feeling of concern for the environment and the motivation
for actively participating in environmental improvement.
13. OBJECTIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
OBJECTIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
• SKILLS: Acquire skills for identifying and solving environmental problems.
• PARTICIPATION : To provide social groups and individuals with an opportunity to be actively at all
levels working towards the resolution of environmental problems.
• EVALUATION : Environmental measures and education programme in terms of ecological, political,
economical, social, academic and education factors.
14. IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
• Increases student engagement in science.
• The awareness and understanding of the environment.
• Essential for the self-fulfillment and social development of the child and the adult.
• Conservation, technology and rural and urban planning to the total human environment.
• Essential for the understanding the different food chains and the nature’s ecological balance
15. SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Awareness(Knowledge)
Real life situations (Understanding)
Conservation (Skills)
Sustainable development (Attitude and
Evaluation)
