Environmental education
The consequence of the climate crisis has highlighted the need for knowledge to preserve our environment for the world to be sustainable. Education is a key element in promoting actions for the environment and sustainability. In fact, Environmental Education is an interdisciplinary pedagogical field whose main function is to become aware of social, natural and environmental complexity. As well as the acquisition of knowledge, values and skills that allow people to take active action in the prevention and resolution of current environmental problems. A key point of environmental education is that it highlights the relationship between the natural environment and the social model. It is therefore more of an educational process that provides the basis for creating a lifestyle in which future generations are more sensitive to the environment in order to improve the relationship between humanity and the environment in which they live.
UNESCO stresses that environmental education is a lifelong process and should be developed as an action in the educational programs of the centers. Classroom teaching should be adapted to the age and maturity of boys and girls, and their learning, besides being theoretical, should be practical, enjoyable and fun. Many of these activities can be carried out in farms schools, in any park in the municipality or in the courtyard of the center. In fact, better plants, shrubs, rivers, birds or insects are known. Environmental awareness can also be improved. For example, pollution from factories or transport, gas emissions or energy consumption, treatment of water in treatment plants, recycling in landfills, etc.
In the Basque Country there are programmes promoting environmental education as the educational programme for the sustainability and quality of the Agenda 21 educational centre in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country. It is based on community participation and intervenes and collaborates in the sustainable development of the municipality. As an environmental education program, it aims to develop knowledge, skills, attitudes, motivation and commitment to participate in the resolution of environmental problems. However, there are some shortcomings, such as the lack of public awareness of the influence of certain forms of frantic consumption on health, the ecosystem and social life. For example, knowing how current consumerism threatens the planet. In fact, educational curricula do not fully reflect the concept of our economic system and the environmental and ecological footprint derived from the consumption organization model. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an environmental education that fosters critical thinking to understand and modify the causes of the natural and social problems existing in society.
In short, environmental education in the increasingly urgent global fight against climate change is a suitable field for promoting ecological awareness and environmental preservation. Acquiring knowledge associated with this phenomenon helps young people to understand and avoid the consequences of climate change arising from the current social model. However, to make environmental education effective, it is necessary to develop a profound history of the socio-political and economic processes that have caused the deterioration of the environment and natural resources and to promote actions that modify human consumption habits.
Aritza Urrengoetxea Cordovilla, Professor
Bidali zure iritzi artikuluak iritzia@argia.eus helbide elektronikora
ARGIAk ez du zertan bat etorri artikuluen edukiarekin. Idatzien gehienezko luzera 4.500 karakterekoa da (espazioak barne). Idazkera aldetik gutxieneko zuzentasun bat beharrezkoa da: batetik, ARGIAk ezin du hartu zuzenketa sakona egiteko lanik; bestetik, egitekotan edukia nahi gabe aldatzeko arriskua dago. ARGIAk azaleko zuzenketak edo moldaketak egingo dizkie artikuluei, behar izanez gero.
You may not know who Donald Berwick is, or why I mention him in the title of the article. The same is true, it is evident, for most of those who are participating in the current Health Pact. They don’t know what Berwick’s Triple Objective is, much less the Quadruple... [+]
The article La motosierra puede ser tentadora, written in recent days by the lawyer Larraitz Ugarte, has played an important role in a wide sector. It puts on the table some common situations within the public administration, including inefficiency, lack of responsibility and... [+]
Is it important to use a language correctly? To what extent is it so necessary to master grammar or to have a broad vocabulary? I’ve always heard the importance of language, but after thinking about it, I came to a conclusion. Thinking often involves this; reaching some... [+]
The other day I went to a place I hadn’t visited in a long time and I liked it so much. While I was there, I felt at ease and thought: this is my favorite place. Amulet, amulet, amulet; the word turns and turns on the way home. Curiosity led me to look for it in Elhuyar and it... [+]
Adolescents and young people, throughout their academic career, will receive guidance on everything and the profession for studies that will help them more than once. They should be offered guidance, as they are often full of doubts whenever they need to make important... [+]
We have had to endure another attack on our language by the Department of Education of the Government of Navarre; we have been forced to make an anti-Basque change in the PAI program. In recent years, by law, new Model D schools have had to introduce the PAI program and have had... [+]
Public education teachers have the need and the right to update and improve the work agreement that has not been renewed in fifteen years. For this, we should be immersed in a real negotiation, but the reality is deplorable. In a negotiation, the agreement of all parties must be... [+]
A few weeks ago, on Diputación Street, in the centre of Vitoria-Gasteiz, two men threw a homeless person off the small landing outside the place where he slept. In addition to being thrown away, a metal railing was immediately placed in front of the lonja. Although the place... [+]
From linguistics or glotophobia and, of course, hatred against Basque, we have often seen our Basque become the dandruff of all sticks. Last of all, the president of Kutxabank, Anton Arriola, has been shaking our language and giving us galantas.The President of Kutxabank,
... [+]
Do not look for this connection from Ezkio or Altsasu, let alone crossing the Ebro River through Castejón. The connection, or rather the connections, between the Basque Y and the AVE of Navarre is already a reality. It is these links in the plural that should concern us and... [+]
Don't make a fuss, don't confront, don't victimize... and obey. As oppressed subjects, in this case as Basques, we talk, how many times have we had to listen to them? Ironically, two years ago, at the Euskalale Independentiston Meeting, Esne Arzallus said: "We have arrived here,... [+]
Aurten "Israel Premier Tech" txirrindularitza talde israeldarra ez da Lizarraldeko Miguel Indurain Sari Nagusia lasterketara etorriko. Berri ona da hori Palestinaren askapenaren alde gaudenontzat eta munstro sionistarekin harreman oro etetea nahi dugunontzat, izan... [+]
Intsumituek denbora luzez egindako borroka gogorra eta mingarria izan zen, baina irabazi zuten, eta garaipen hura behin betikoa izango zela uste genuen, atzera bueltarik gabea. Baina badirudi, politikari batzuen ahotik aterata, eskalada militaristari gorazarre egin eta berriz... [+]
Punto Bobo liburuaren irakurketan murgilduta, Itxaso Martin Zapirain egilearen Eromena, Azpimemoria eta Isiltasunak Idazten ikerketa lanean sentitu nuen egiazkotasun eta maila etikoarekin egin dut berriz ere topo. Eta hortaz, hara bueltatu. “Oihu izateko jaio zen isiltasun... [+]