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    The school has been built in order to present the vision of dream big. Teresa's Icon school mainly focus on the environmental sustainability. That has been done by bringing awareness to the people of the U.K.The school is managed by the education department of the district council through the school board. The school focuses on the secondary education and thus environmental education that is taken on the grounds of the primary and secondary section of the school. The study of this incorporates 687

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    Sustainability is “environment education”.  Learning about the environment and how natural systems function. It’s everything that we need for our survival and wellbeing relating directly to our natural surrounding. The changing climate effects society and communities in many ways. For example, climate change can affect rainfall, our health, crops, and even our energy supply among other things. Across the country and over many areas of our economy climate-related impacts are happening. Ozone layer

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    Environmental Education today must be understood as education for sustainability. The flow information and knowledge caused by Environmental Education have the potential to build a new vision of the world capable of guiding actions towards sustainability. The history of environmental education can be searched back in the 18th century when Jean Jacques Rousseau stressed the importance of an education that focuses on the environment in Emile: or, On Education. There after several decades later, Louis

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    The topic I propose to develop my research in is environmental education and the urban challenges it faces. The urgency of the current state of the environmental agenda makes it necessary to promote environmental awareness in all generations as indispensable for a sustainable future. Despite this, environmental education is still absent in most school programs and struggles to compete with “formal education” when in fact they should be one and the same. Efforts to change this have been recorded and

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    correct approaches to education, food security, climate change and a variety of other issues. In recent years, many people have both advocated for and against the further incorporation of environmental literacy into the education system. This incorporation would hopefully lead to a generation of people no longer disconnected from nature. Additionally, with a greater emphasis on the environment a generation of students will begin to understand the importance of environmental citizenship, and hopefully

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    Purpose In the USA, the evolution of environmental education has been well documented. However, in some countries, it is not. This research aims to understand how governmental agencies, institutions, and organizations have influenced the development of environmental education in Iran. Iran has a fascinating history with the environment. During the Persian Empire, nature has an intrinsic value rather than an instrumental. This implemented many sound environmental practices in Persian culture. Exploring

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    Environmental education is not always implemented within schools because classrooms are the main space in which students learn and teachers are expected to teach. However, by implementing activities that surround around current events in the environment and by connecting students to nature, this can have positive effects in which it influences the individuals sense of self and their community (Mcinerney, Smyth, & Down, 2011). Research found that children who play in a natural environment to develop

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    With advances in technology and production driven by consumer demand, the importance of environmental education and sustainability has become increasingly significant. This has led large corporations and smaller businesses to get involved with ethical branding and cause-related marketing, to encourage consumers to not only buy their product, but also give the impression that they are demonstrating their ethical values by doing so (Hawkins, 2014). The problem with this marketing approach is that

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    Today was the first day of our applied theatre project for environmental education at David Fleay’s Wildlife Park. We started the day by getting into costumes and roaming around the park. Originally this was done in pairs, but seeing the amount of people that actually came to the park we decided that going as a group of all four of us would be the most beneficial, as we didn’t want to see the same people twice. As it was our first day we were all a bit nervous, but Afri and Georgia’s engagement with

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    2. 4. CONFERENCES AND REPORTS ON ENVIRONMENT UN activity in the field of environment has been driven by major conferences and reports. • UN Conference on the Human Environment (1972) • World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) • United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (1992) • General Assembly Special Session on the Environment (1997) • World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) • UN Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) U N CONFERENCE ON THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT

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