Environmental Education

1. Introduction to Environmental Education
Ahmed Aboulez
George Mason University, USA
Mansoura University, Egypt
aaboulez@mans.edu.eg

2. Warm up
1. How do define the term environment?
2. Are human a part of the environment?
3. What is environmental education?

3. What is the Environmental Education?

4. Environmental Education (EE)
EE is a process that allows individuals to:
1. explore environmental issues.
2. engage in problem solving.
3. take action to improve the environment.

5. Environmental Education (EE)
EE is a process directed at creating:
1. Awareness.
2. Understanding.
3. leads to responsible individual and
group actions.
about environmental issues

6. Successful Environmental Education
EE focuses on processes that promote :
1. Critical Thinking.
2. Problem Solving.
3. Effective Decision-Making Skills.

7. Predicting
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Discussing
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Classifying
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Data Gathering
Interpreting
Data
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Inferring
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Experimenting
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Measuring
2
Environmentaleducationutilizes
processesthatinvolvestudentsin
Observing

8. EE is not environmental information
Environmental information is
providing facts about specific
environmental issues or problems.

9. Environmental Education (EE)
Environmental education (EE) is a life-long
learning process that increases people's
knowledge and awareness about the environment
and its associated challenges, develops the
necessary skills and expertise to address the
challenges, and fosters attitudes, motivations, and
commitments to make informed decisions and
take responsible actions.

10. Environmental Education (EE)
Process knowledge Awareness Skills Attitudes Actions

11. Environmental Education (EE)
Process knowledge Awareness Skills Attitudes Actions
• EE is a process focusing on life-long learning.
• Stating at earliest year and continue
• Community.

12. Environmental Education (EE)
Process knowledge Awareness Skills Attitudes Actions
• Natural recourses .
• Healthy foods.
• Clean water.

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17. Warm up
1. What was one fact you learned today?
2. What was the most interested thing
about today’s class?
3. How can you apply or use the
information that you learned today?

18. Questions

19. Thank you