Environmental Education

Summary Purpose Objectives Summary Environmental Education (EE) aims at teaching childrenfrom a young age to be environmentally aware, offering the perfect chance for educators to build lifelong habits that could potentially make a significant difference in the future of our planet. Sustainability and Environment are recognized within public discourse as crucial topics. Consequently, it is essential to realize that the concept of Environmental Education is continually changingtowards Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). ESD containsall the goalsand principles of EE but it also aims at the transformation of human…

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CLILing with Art and (in) Nature

Summary Purpose Objectives Summary Education with a holistic perspective is concerned with the development of the students into lifelong learners and active citizens who will take personal and collective responsibility to support themselves and the “different others” to live with dignity and self-respect in any multicultural environment they will potentially live within an unpedictably evolving globalized ‘risk society’ (Giddens, 1990; Beck 1992). Education with a holistic perspective uses Art and Nature in an active ClILing mode to liberate students’ imagination and creativity and make teaching and learning a unique…

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