The concept of Environmental Education (EE) or environment for sustainable development(ESD) is not new to our country (that's what we claim) . Our traditions emphasize harmony with nature and has taught volumes which the current generation has neither heard of them nor values.
There are a number of good teachers who deliver EE with passion and out of their heart. This might be out of their patriotic concern or out of their understanding of the issue as a global, contemporary concept. Do they comfortably link EE with the prescribed syllabus and enumerate the concept of sustainability?
In fact, that is the greatest challenge of our times. We have reached a point where education policy must ensure that the concept of ESD is discussed in its broadest sense and woven into the curricular framework so that, strong bridges are built between the classroom and the outside world. The main focus of EE should be to expose youngsters to the real world in which they live and would work upon their aspirations. they need all the knowledge, cognitive and motor skills to design their world better. This cannot be achieved only through capacity of the teachers but through abundant practical hands on experience to the students.
Nature camps are an ideal intervention into the curriculum that has the potential to associate and interconnect several of the most essential skills that enables ESD a reality.
Night stay camps have the advantage of extending the class beyond the school hours. It gives more scope for elaborating the subject. It builds better student-teacher relation too.
There are a number of good teachers who deliver EE with passion and out of their heart. This might be out of their patriotic concern or out of their understanding of the issue as a global, contemporary concept. Do they comfortably link EE with the prescribed syllabus and enumerate the concept of sustainability?
In fact, that is the greatest challenge of our times. We have reached a point where education policy must ensure that the concept of ESD is discussed in its broadest sense and woven into the curricular framework so that, strong bridges are built between the classroom and the outside world. The main focus of EE should be to expose youngsters to the real world in which they live and would work upon their aspirations. they need all the knowledge, cognitive and motor skills to design their world better. This cannot be achieved only through capacity of the teachers but through abundant practical hands on experience to the students.
Nature camps are an ideal intervention into the curriculum that has the potential to associate and interconnect several of the most essential skills that enables ESD a reality.
Night stay camps have the advantage of extending the class beyond the school hours. It gives more scope for elaborating the subject. It builds better student-teacher relation too.
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