Subregional strategy for reorienting school curricula towards environment and development education¶

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Description¶

The IEEP strategy holds that because countries of a region share characteristics and benefit from exchanging information, resources and competences, curriculum harmonisation for environment and development education is best begun at subregional level. The article argues "it might be more practical to start on a subregional basis, since this presents the advantage of dealing with smaller groups of countries capable of presenting greater homogeneity in terms of environmental as well as educational, socio-cultural, economic and other contexts." Subregional workshops review existing curricula and produce adaptable prototypes integrating environment and development issues on an interdisciplinary basis, with a two-pronged focus on students and on teachers who often lack systematic EE training.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Workshops and seminars organized with competent specialised educational and government institutions, involving local, national and regional educational and environmental experts

Constraints¶

Some regions present a very large spectrum on the geographic, socio-cultural, political and economic scale, which is why the subregional rather than regional starting point is advised

Target Learners¶

primary and secondary school students
school teachers lacking systematic pre-/in-service EE training

Target Learning Objectives¶

interdisciplinary understanding of environment and development issues
harmonised attitudes and approaches across subregional countries

Claims¶

Examples¶

ASEAN subregional EE curriculum prototypes for primary and secondary schools and pre-/in-service teacher training

Key Sources¶

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Environmental Education Section. (1993). Connect: UNESCO-UNEP Environmental Education Newsletter, 1993. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED368567

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`title`	`Subregional strategy for reorienting school curricula towards environment and development education`
`description`	`The IEEP strategy holds that because countries of a region share characteristics and benefit from exchanging information, resources and competences, curriculum harmonisation for environment and development education i...`
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