THE CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND ITS INTRODUCTION INTO THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

  Юлия Шарипова (Темиртау, Казахстан) |    Download article

Unlike traditional forms of education, Environmental Education is a holistic, lifelong learning process directed at creating responsible individuals who explore and identify environmental issues, engage in problem solving, and take action effectively to improve the environment. Environmental education is fast emerging as one of the most important disciplines in the world. Merging the ideas and philosophy of environmentalism with the structure of formal education systems, it strives to increase awareness of environmental problems as well as to foster the skills and strategies for solving those problems. Environmental issues have traditionally fallen to the state, federal, and international policymakers, scientists, academics, and legal scholars. Environmental education (often referred to simply as "EE") shifts the focus to the general population. In other words, it seeks to empower individuals with an understanding of environmental problems and the skills to solve them.