ARTICLE

AWARENESS REGARDING ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION A QUALITATIVE STUDY SUGGESTING PRACTICAL STEPS IN EDUCATION LEADING TO A GREEN PAKISTAN

  1. HOME
  2. ARTICLE

52 Pages : 510-518

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(V-I).52      10.31703/gssr.2020(V-I).52      Published : Mar 2020

Awareness Regarding Environmental Education: A Qualitative Study Suggesting Practical Steps in Education Leading to a Green Pakistan

Abstract

    Green Pakistan is a very famous slogan nowadays and one of the core objectives of the present government. This research focuses on the qualitative perspective on the need and significance of Environmental Education in Teachers Training programs to provide awareness to forthcoming teachers. Environmental Education is included in Millennium Development Goals by the United Nations. Recently the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been launched by the United Nations and subsequently, Pakistan has signed a treaty to fight against Climate Change and Global Warming. The researcher examined the modules which are to be incorporated in the syllabus of teacher education. The inclusion of modules apropos of Environmental Awareness in Teachers’ Training programs was recorded highly beneficial in numerous experimental studies all over the world and particularly in Pakistan in one of the doctoral-level research. The correlation among Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals, and due to continuous learning process improvement in the Environment at local settings was established based on a qualitative study.

    (1) Sohaib Sultan
    Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Shehzad Ahmed
    Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Okara, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Muhammad Imran
    Assistant Professor, Department of Education, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
Fulltext PDF

References

  • Aznar, M.P. (2009). Education in basic competences for sustainable development: The Role of University. Master of Education. International Islamic University Islamabad. Revista de Educación, extraordinario, 219-37.
  • Bruvold, W. H. (1975). Belief and behavior as determinants of environmental attitudes. Environment and Behavior, 5, 202-218.
  • Boyer, L., & Roth, W.M. (2006). Learning and Teaching as Emergent Features of Informal Settings: An Ethnographic Study in An Environmental Action Group. Science Education, 90(6), 1028-49.
  • Bray, C. (2008). Program Evaluation of The Sustainability of Teaching Methods. Environmental Education Research, 14(6), 655-66.
  • Brundtland, G.H. (1987). Our Common Future. Report of the United Nations WorldCommission on Environment and Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Chawla, L. (1999). Life Paths into Effective Environmental Action. Journal of Environmental Education, 31, 15-26.
  • Chawla, L., & Cushing, D.F. (2007). Education for Strategic Environmental Behaviour. Environmental Education Research 13, no. 4: 437-52.
  • Constanza, R., & Jorgensen, S.E. (2002). Understanding and Solving Environmental Problems in the 21st Century: Towards a New Integrated Hard Problem Science. Elsevier Publishers.
  • Cottrell, S. P. (2003). Influence of Socio Demographics and Environmental Attitudes on General Responsible Environmental Behavior Among Recreational Boaters. Environment and Behavior, 35, 347-375.
  • Culen, G. R., & Volk, T. L. (2000). Effects of an Extended Case Study on Environmental Behavior and Associated Variables in Seventh And Eighth-Grade Students. Journal of Environmental Education, 31, 9-15.
  • Davis, Devra. (2002). When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution. Basic Books.
  • Dillon, J. (2003). On Learners and Learning in Environmental Education: Missing Theories, Ignored Communities. Environmental Education Research 9, no. 2: 215-26.
  • Eisler, A.D., Eisler, H., & Yoshida, M. (2003). Perception of human ecology: Cross-Cultural and Gender Comparison. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 23, 89-101.
  • Enger, E.D., & Smith, B.F. (2002). Environmental science: A study of interrelationship (8th edition). Boston: McGraw-Hill Companies.
  • Erdogan, M., Marcinkowski, T., & Ok, A. (2009) Content analysis of selected features of K‐8 environmental education research studies in Turkey, 1997-2007, Environmental Education Research, 15(5), 525-548
  • Folke, C. (2006). Resilience: The Emergence of a Perspective for Social-Ecological Systems Analyses. Global Environmental Change, 16(3), 253-67.
  • Freeman, C., & Buck, O. (2003). Development of an Ecological Mapping Methodology for Urban Areas in New Zealand. Landscape and Urban Planning, 63(3), 161-73.
  • Gaylie, V. (2009). The Learning Garden: Ecology, Teaching, and Transformation Paperback. Peter Lang Publishing, Switzerland
  • Hungerford, H. & Volk, T. (1990) Changing learner behavior through environmental education, Journal of Environmental Education, 21(3), 8-21.
  • Harmon, A. (2017). A Sense of Duty to Teach Climate Change. The New York Times. http://www/nytimes.com/teaching-students-about-climate-change.html.
  • Krasny, M., & Roth, W.M. (2010) Environmental education for social-ecological system resilience: a perspective from activity theory, Environmental Education Research, 16(5-6), 545-558
  • Lyons, G., & Arthur-Kelly, M. (2014). UNESCO Inclusion Policy and the Education of School Students with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities: Where to Now? Creative Education, 5, 445-45
  • Riordan, O.T. (1976) Attitudes, Behavior, and Environmental Policy Issues. In: Altman I., Wohlwill J.F. (eds) Human Behavior and Environment. Springer, Boston, MA
  • Shamsuddin, S., & Ujang, N. (2008) Making places: The role of attachment in creating the senseof place for traditional streets in Malaysia. Habitat International, 32, 399-409
  • UNESCO-UNEP (1978). Intergovernmental conference on environmental education: Final report. Paris: UNESCO.org.pk
  • United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). (2017). Pakistan, UN Environment Assembly. web.unep.org/environmentassembly/pakistan
  • United Nations. (2002). Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
  • A/CONF.199/20, Johannesburg. http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/documents/summitdocs/13102_wssd_report_reissued.pdf
  • United Nations. (1992). Promoting Education, Public Awareness and Training. In Earth Summit: Agenda 21, The United Nations Programme of Action from Rio. New York: United Nations.
  • UNESCO-UNEP. (1997). Education for Sustainable Future: A Tans Disciplinary Vision for Concerted Action. Paris: UNESCO.
  • Vare, P., & Scott, W. (2007). Learning for a change: Exploring the relationship Between Education and Sustainable Development. Journal of Education for Sustainable Development 1, (2), 191-8
  • Waktola, D.K. (2009) Challenges and opportunities in mainstreaming environmental education into the curricula of teachers' colleges in Ethiopia, Environmental Education Research, 15(5), 589-605

Cite this article

APA

    APA : Sultan, S., Ahmed, S., & Imran, M. (2020). Awareness Regarding Environmental Education: A Qualitative Study Suggesting Practical Steps in Education Leading to a Green Pakistan. Global Social Sciences Review, V(I), 510-518. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(V-I).52

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Sultan, Sohaib, Shehzad Ahmed, and Muhammad Imran. 2020. "Awareness Regarding Environmental Education: A Qualitative Study Suggesting Practical Steps in Education Leading to a Green Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review, V (I): 510-518 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2020(V-I).52

HARVARD

    HARVARD : SULTAN, S., AHMED, S. & IMRAN, M. 2020. Awareness Regarding Environmental Education: A Qualitative Study Suggesting Practical Steps in Education Leading to a Green Pakistan. Global Social Sciences Review, V, 510-518.

MHRA

    MHRA : Sultan, Sohaib, Shehzad Ahmed, and Muhammad Imran. 2020. "Awareness Regarding Environmental Education: A Qualitative Study Suggesting Practical Steps in Education Leading to a Green Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review, V: 510-518

MLA

    MLA : Sultan, Sohaib, Shehzad Ahmed, and Muhammad Imran. "Awareness Regarding Environmental Education: A Qualitative Study Suggesting Practical Steps in Education Leading to a Green Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review, V.I (2020): 510-518 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Sultan, Sohaib, Ahmed, Shehzad, and Imran, Muhammad (2020), "Awareness Regarding Environmental Education: A Qualitative Study Suggesting Practical Steps in Education Leading to a Green Pakistan", Global Social Sciences Review, V (I), 510-518

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Sultan, Sohaib, Shehzad Ahmed, and Muhammad Imran. "Awareness Regarding Environmental Education: A Qualitative Study Suggesting Practical Steps in Education Leading to a Green Pakistan." Global Social Sciences Review V, no. I (2020): 510-518. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(V-I).52