Objectives of Environmental Education (EE)
Participation - to provide individuals, groups and societies with opportunities to be actively involved in exercising their skills of environmental citizenship and be actively involved at all levels in working towards sustainable development.
Knowledge - to help individuals, groups and societies gain a variety of experiences in, and a basic understanding of, the knowledge and action competencies required for sustainable development.
Values - to help individuals, groups and societies acquire feelings of concern for issues of sustainability as well as a set of values upon which they can make judgments about appropriate ways of acting individually and with others to promote sustainable development.
Skills - to help individuals, groups and societies acquire the action competence or skills of environmental citizenship - in order to be able to identify and anticipate environmental problems and work with others to resolve, minimize and prevent them.
Awareness - to create an overall understanding of the short & long term impacts and effects of human behaviors and lifestyles - on both the local and global environments.
Goals of Environmental Education (EE)
Environmental Education (EE) is a process that equips human beings with goals of inculcating:-
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Awareness and sensitivity about concerns of economic, social, political and ecological interdependence in urban and rural areas
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To provide every person with opportunities to acquire the knowledge and understanding
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Promotion of positive attitudes and values
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Commitment and development of skills needed to protect and improve the environment
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To create new patterns of behavior of individuals, groups and society as a whole towards the environment
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Encompassing, both environmental training and information.