ULOGA EKOLOŠKOG OBRAZOVANJA U ZAŠTITI I UNAPREĐENJU ŽIVOTNE OKOLINE
THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION IN PROTECTING AND IMPROVING THE ENVIRONMENT

Summary/Abstract: Environment education is an essential part of the educational process nowadays. The contemporary society has been facing a crisis for over a period of years, and the near future does not show much chance of ending it. The issue of ecological crisis is mentioned along with economic crisis, which the contemporary society faces, or is very close to facing it. Environment education has become incorporated into our teaching process just recently. The idea that industrial systems should be under control of the environment was not a part of theory or practice during most of the XX century. However, XXI century clearly shows that issues of environment and development cannot be separated, therefore the idea of sustainable development has been developed in order to represent the sort of development needed to satisfy the needs of present times, and provide an idea for future generations to satisfy their own needs. Without a proper environmental education, a healthy environment will not exist as such. Every country strives for a better environment education. However, the environmental issues have not been dealt with by the politics of economic development. In many countries, the concept of environment protection is much younger than it is in our country, while the USA have already developed its own agency for environment protection in the 1970s. Environment education is incorporated into the teaching process as an independent subject, depending on the age of students, including the extent to which ecological content is incorporated into the curriculum, taking into consideration the educational profile and the connection to science subjects and ecology.

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