Publication details
Possibilities of environmental education at the Department of Geography
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of the HERODOT Conference in Ayvalik, |
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| Web | http://www.herodot.net/conferences/Ayvalik/EUROGEO-HERODOT-Ayvalik2009-%20papers.html |
| Field | Earth magnetism, geography |
| Keywords | environmental education; fieldwork; subject integrity; environmental surveys |
| Description | Environmental education has been considered as a necessary requirement for present university education, because it involves an effort to teach about natural environments function and how human activities can manage their behaviour and ecosystems in order to live sustainably. However, the world is rapidly becoming a more complex place. As a result, we must expect greater academic achievement from our students today to be adequately prepared for the challenges of tomorrow. Faculty of education offers many subjects dealing with the environment. On the one hand they are understood as a tool how to protect the nature (the ecosystem approach) on the other hand it is considered as an environment with human and nature relations (the geosystem approach). Geography subjects are more focused on the landscape synthesis. Nowadays Standards for Environmental Education are being developed at the Department of Geography as a response to curriculum revising.Results are based on department research. |