GREEN SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

GREEN SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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  TOWARDS A GREENSCHOOL AND EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Prepared by: Mary Grace E. Regencia
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  - School playa great role in the development of academics but also environmental ethics and care for nature among students. The school environment, therefore, should encourage, support and nurture students capacities on green environmentas integrated in the curriculum and instruction. Environmental issues and concerns can be effectively addressedwhen all efforts of staff and students are geared toward adopting environmentally sustainable principles at all levels.
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  GREEN SCHOOL: Theconcept and background The concept of green school was introduced in Europe in the 1990s while the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 took cognizance of the need to take action in every area in which human impacts on the environment. The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburgin 2002 catalyzed the efforts to bring about a shift in ‘educating about environment’ to ‘educating for sustainability’.
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  Green Schools andESD The Green Schools is visualize as a schools guided by the principles of environmental sustainability. Students learning experiences outside school help them to consolidate and apply knowledge, gain understanding of environmental processes, interrelations and issues, acquire life skills and help foster attitudes, values and sensitivity toward environmental concerns.
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  Essential aspects ofGreen School Environment The ‘greenness’ of a school finds expressions in varios aspects of the environment. The Green Schools has clean, healthy, protective and green sorroundings. It also promotes both the physical and psychosocial health of learnersand others in school; ensure a healthy (provision of health services, such as nutritional supplementation and counseling), hygienic (safe drinking water, neat and clean classrooms, playgrounds and etc.), safe learning environment with healthy practices (e.g a school free of drugs, corporal punishment and harassment); and brings childrencloser to nature and involves them in taking care of it.
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  A Green Schooladheres to the following precepts: 1. Learning about the environment It focuses mainly on acquisitionof knowledgeand understandingof the sorroundings and related issues.
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  2. Learning throug theenvironment It refers to the processes of learning while being engage with environment inside and outsidethe classroom.
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  3. Learning for theenvironment It aims at developing an informed response and responsibility towards the environment beyond acquisition of skills and knowledge.
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  Understanding Green Curriculum Fora curriculum to be ‘GREEN’ it must include the following aspects. 1. Environment is encompassing, multidisciplinary and dynamic, has scientific, social economic, political and technological dimensions. 2. Being holistic, a Green Curriculum views environment as all that is around and aims to give a better understanding of the way the world functions its operations, its alteration because of the actions of human race andits consequences.
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  3. It holisticallyaddresses sustainability concerns, such as protection and conservation of natural resources, traditions, culture and heritage, safety and security, physical and emotional assurance, health and sanitation issues, concern for equity and justice and interconnection between and among natural, social, physical and cultural environment. 4. This requires a teaching-learningapproach where students are provided time and spaceto explore different facets of environment and interconnect them. 5. A Green Curriculum is a mutual concern of teachers and students.
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  REFERENCES: Building and Inhancing NewLiteracies Across the Curriculum (page 165- 167)
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