WASHINGTON: The provisions of environmental education need greater investment and innovation if future generations must be able to respond fully with climate emergency, experts said.
Writing in the Journal of Environmental Education Research, Alan Reid from Monash University, Justin Dillon from the University of Exeter, Jo-Anne Ferreira from the University of Southern Queensland and Nicole Ardoin of Stanford University, which is a senior journal editor, said environmental education.
is a “foundation for social and environmental changes” needed in the future.
The deepening environmental crisis will continue to deteriorate if there is no significant support and investment in environmental education and science, the researchers have warned.
Reformation will help young people to overcome complex, interlink and dynamic problems of contemporary situations.
Experts argue the government and other organizations must direct more funds for education innovation in response to consistent warnings of scientists about trends in ecosystems, biodiversity and climate, among other environmental issues.
Environmental education and science help people to identify false information and ideologies, and understand and respond appropriately to warn about climate emergency.
They add that consensus in our environmental predement is not only a problem for scientists.
It must be supported by those in humanities, art, and social sciences, and a wider community.
Only then will call contemporary by organizations such as UNEP and UNESCO that ‘environmental education becomes a core component of all education systems at all levels in 2025’, has the opportunity to get multilateral and multi-level support.
Academics highlight international surveys that show many governments continue to fail to support and invest sufficiently in environmental education and sustainability in pre-school environments, schools, colleges and universities.
Professor Ferreira said, “The study basis is clear about the advantages of the entire school approach to improving the curriculum quickly to overcome topics such as climate emergency.
Existential risk aspects also mean we need to see investment and innovation in lifelong learning and non-school-based provision, along with Examining the current focus of teacher education today and sustainable professional development.
“Professor Reid said,” The popularity of the Center for Outdoor Education and Activities is an agreement for a broader basis of interest in the environment and nature, and when art, media and civil society discuss the climate crisis .
Documentary environmental communication and flagship science by people like David Attenborough checking the causes and effects of climate emergency sticks to the tasters of many people to understand more from credible sources.
Sir David’s own learning journey to understand the urgency of the situation underlined the opportunity R rich is available to all of us, especially in running COP26 in Glasgow.
“” Ensuring all forms of relevant environmental education, coherent, suitable for purposes, is properly funded, and available for current generations and the future inside and outside the curriculum will be very important to overcome good and related warnings from scientists, “he added .
Professor Dillon said, “Global leaders must discuss how to reorganize, recreate and restore environmental education to reduce the consequences of the environmental crisis.
Countries must instill environmental education and science throughout the community in a way that makes sense locally.
“Professor Ardoin said,” Only by investing in education and especially environmental education and sustainability, it will be possible to change our current radical courses, and thus show ourselves and future generations who are considered by our warning.
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