Environmental Education-The Need of The Day

Environmental education is a holistic concept that encompasses knowledge of the natural world as well as emotions, dispositions, and skills. Polluted water destroys the flora and fauna living in canals and rivers. Along with, the importance of social environment should also be taught to children. Environmental education involves children, teachers and communities working collectively and democratically towards the resolution of environmental questions, issues md problems. It is interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary and super disciplinary. It is about values, at titudes, ethics and actions. It is not a subject or an ‘add-on’. Nor is it an option. It is a way of thinking and a way of practice. It is a positive contribution to counteract & the ‘doom and gloom ’ and helplessness that many feel about the enormity of environmental and social problems. It is certainly more than recycling, corn posting and keeping earthworms The goal of environmental education, according to the is “to develop a world population that is aware of, and concerned about, the environment an