International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 6

Need of environmental education in teacher education

  • Author:
  • Niharika Gautam
  • Total Page Count: 17
  • Page Number: 164 to 180

Junior Research Fellow, Department of Education, Sardar Patel University, V.V. Nagar, Anand

Online published on 8 August, 2016.

Abstract

Environmental education is important to trigger proactive participation of the teachers and the teacher educators in addressing, debating and protesting on significant environmental issues. This article describes the aims and objectives of environmental education, need and environmental educations, categorizes the environmental education, enlists different examples of formal as well as non-formal education, and discuss the importance of environmental education and teaches the awareness raising strategies.