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Moral and religious training – education students for environmental
Moral and religious training – education students for environmental

Author(s): Monica Opriş, Dorin Opriş
Subject(s): Education, Energy and Environmental Studies, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Theology and Religion
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Religious Education; environmental education; teaching models; youth education;

Summary/Abstract: The issue of environmental education is one of the most important issues for the contemporary world. The human relationship with the environment and especially, the human attitude towards it seemed a solved problem a century ago, but in the last decades, it has become a real provocation for more and more people, decision makers, from different backgrounds. If we refer only to the need to maintain a clean environment around us, we have already made an important step for training the young generation. However, the environmental education aims to go much further and it wants to identify viable formative models in the education of today, so students can develop their personality with an acceptable level of understanding their role and place in the created world. In this context, religious and moral formation can bring a significant support for this new aspect of education, in particular, through the arguments based on biblical texts, which you can make to students of different ages. In terms of teaching, to achieve these objectives, there is a set of principles and appropriate methods and we offer some suggestions for their emphasis and integration into current educational context. Obviously, an authentic environmental education integrates models for emphasizing the message that the nature often offers to the man in search of his own identity

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 17-25
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English