EDA ASSIGNMENT 2
QUESTION 1
What international events influenced the development of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability? List the key developments and events in a short 1-page point-form account providing the relevant names of events and dates/ years in which they took place
1) The 1972 United Nations Conference on Human Environment – Stockholm
It led directly to the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which became the first UN agency to have its headquarters located outside of Europe and North America – in Nairobi in Kenya, East Africa.
Among the first tasks given to the UNEP was to establish term ‘environmental education’.
Together with Unesco, UNEP organised the first International Workshop on Environmental Education in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1975 and following on this, the first Inter-governmental Conference on Environmental Education held at Tbilisi in the USSR in 1977.
This conference resulted in the declaration of 12 principals – now referred to as the Tbilisi Principals of Environmental Education which provided the framework and guidelines for the practise of environmental education on a global, regional, and national scale.
The 1987 International Conference on Environmental Education held in Moscow reaffirmed the Tbilisi Principals as sound guidelines for the development of national environment al education programmes. 2) The Tbilisi Principles of Environmental Education
Consider the environment in its totality – natural and built, technological and social (economic, political, cultural-historical, moral, aesthetic)
Be a continuous lifelong process, beginning at the preschool level and continuing through all formal and non-formal stages
Be interdisciplinary in its approach, drawing on the specific content of each discipline in making possible a holistic and balanced perspective
Examine major environmental issues from local, national, regional, and international points of view so that students
What international events influenced the development of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability? List the key developments and events in a short 1-page point-form account providing the relevant names of events and dates/ years in which they took place
1) The 1972 United Nations Conference on Human Environment – Stockholm
It led directly to the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which became the first UN agency to have its headquarters located outside of Europe and North America – in Nairobi in Kenya, East Africa.
Among the first tasks given to the UNEP was to establish term ‘environmental education’.
Together with Unesco, UNEP organised the first International Workshop on Environmental Education in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1975 and following on this, the first Inter-governmental Conference on Environmental Education held at Tbilisi in the USSR in 1977.
This conference resulted in the declaration of 12 principals – now referred to as the Tbilisi Principals of Environmental Education which provided the framework and guidelines for the practise of environmental education on a global, regional, and national scale.
The 1987 International Conference on Environmental Education held in Moscow reaffirmed the Tbilisi Principals as sound guidelines for the development of national environment al education programmes. 2) The Tbilisi Principles of Environmental Education
Consider the environment in its totality – natural and built, technological and social (economic, political, cultural-historical, moral, aesthetic)
Be a continuous lifelong process, beginning at the preschool level and continuing through all formal and non-formal stages
Be interdisciplinary in its approach, drawing on the specific content of each discipline in making possible a holistic and balanced perspective
Examine major environmental issues from local, national, regional, and international points of view so that students