Diversity In Environmental Education
Nowadays, environmental education is sometimes integrated into school curricula as an interdisciplinary goal of formal education. It is also part of informal education, and a part of daily life during leisure time activities, as well as a substitute for or extension to the formal education sector.
Environmental education is about experiencing, sharing, creativity, pleasure and sensitivity: environmental education activities can be informing the population, discovery activities, but can also consists of the active participation of the public (workshops, volunteering, excursions, role play, field trips or holidays). The public sector, as well as NGOs, provides materials, education and guidelines on environmental education. Protected Areas also play a vital role in environmental education in regions, having the scientific and protection issues at hand and being able to transfer the knowledge using participation opportunities to a broad public.
Education for sustainable development, became more and more important at the beginning of the 21st century and can be viewed as a broadening and strengthening of environmental education. It takes into account not only the education about ecology and how to protect naturally functioning environments, but also the social, democratic, cultural and economic wellbeing of humans in these environments. It aims at enabling people to enforce and support sustainable development in their regions and globally