1. Environmental Education

2. What is it?
Process that allows individuals to explore environmental issues, engage in problem solving, and take action to improve the environment. As a result, individuals develop the skills to make informed and responsible decisions.

3. The components of environmental education are:
Awareness and sensitivity
Knowledge and understanding
Attitudes of concern and motivation
Skills to identify and help
Participation in activities that lead to the resolution of environmental challenges

4. Environmental education teaches individuals how to weigh various sides of an issue through critical thinking and it enhances their own problem-solving and decision- making skills.
Environmental Education is more than Information about the Environment

5. Environmental Education
Increases awareness and knowledge of environmental issues
teach individuals critical-thinking
enhance individuals' problem- solving and decision-making skills
Does not advocate a particular viewpoint

6. Environmental Information
Provides facts or opinions about environmental issues
Does not necessarily teach individuals critical-thinking
Does not necessarily enhance individuals' problem-solving and decision-making skills
May advocate a particular viewpoint

7. Environmental Citizenship is an idea that each of us is an integral part of a larger ecosystem and that our future depends on embracing the challenge and acting responsibly and positively toward our environment.
The idea of environmental citizenship was first developed by Environment Canada. It is now spreading around the world.

8. Citizenship according to:
Aristotle: Citizenship and ethics are one. Ethics is from the standpoint of the individual. Citizenship is from the standpoint of the group.
Aldo Leopold: It implies respect for his fellow- members, and also respect for the community as such.
Mark Sagoff: We are citizens, not just consumers. Our environment requires citizen preferences, not just consumer preferences. As citizens, we need to protect nature, not just buy, sell, and consume it. It has a dignity, not just a price

9. There are many institutions and associations that have the task to spread environmental education, and we have to give them our support.

10. What´s environmental education
Name 2 components of environmental education:
List 2 points of environmental information:
What is environmental citizenship?
Where it was developed first?
What Aristotle said?
What do Mark Sagoof said?
Aldo Leoplod think?

11. Provides facts or opinions about environmental issues.
Does not necessarily teach individuals critical-thinking.
Awareness and sensitivity.
Process that allows individuals to explore environmental issues, engage in problem solving, and take action to improve the environment.
Citizenship is an idea that each of us is an integral part of a larger ecosystem and that our future depends on embracing the challenge
Canada
That ethics and citizenship are one.
We are citizens not consumers
It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such