Multicultural Voices in Environmental Education: Relevance and Importance

Anthropogenic activities have immensely impacted the state of our environment and have contributed to its use, miss-use and over-use. Hence, it is of utmost importance that environmental education is imparted and awareness generated in civil society so as to curb over-exploitation of natural resources and limit environment degradation. In this context, Multicultural Environmental Education, both formal and informal, plays a significant role in not only disseminating environmental awareness but in the understanding of the concept of environment, its use and management, from a multicultural perspective. Multicultural Environmental Education is being projected as an extremely apt reform that not only highlights the significance of generating consciousness and communicating environmental education but also as a platform where local communities can be heard and their traditional knowledge incorporated in endeavours of environment conservation and protection.