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ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CONGRESS FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
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Solving global environmental problems requires international collaborations and sharing of best practices from different countries. Therefore, international approaches examine environmental education practices and strategies worldwide, emphasizing the best and most innovative methods adopted in education systems in different countries. These approaches allow comparison of international perspectives aimed at increasing environmental awareness and supporting sustainable development.
International Approaches in Environmental Education
Integrating environmental education into curricula makes these topics a part of the educational framework and supports students in gaining knowledge and skills related to environmental and sustainability issues by following national and international environmental education programs.
Environmental Education in Curriculum Programs
Environmental education awareness projects implemented in schools through collaboration with the Ministry of National Education, various institutions, and non-governmental organizations aim to enhance students' environmental awareness and promote sustainable living habits. These practices include various tools such as educational programs, projects, workshops, campaigns, competitions, and informative activities to instill eco-friendly behaviors in students.
Awareness Practices in Environmental Education in Schools
Environmental and sustainability education in higher education provides students with knowledge on analyzing environmental issues, developing, and implementing sustainable solutions. This education develops students' knowledge and skills in interdisciplinary fields such as ecology, environmental management, policy analysis, and innovative technologies. It helps university students who will enter professional life to gain awareness of working within the framework of environmental protection principles in the institutions where they will work.
Environmental and Sustainability Education in Higher Education
Youth engagement encourages young people to take an active role in addressing environmental issues and enhances their environmental awareness and responsibilities. This process includes programs and activities that support young people's participation in eco-friendly projects and the adoption of sustainable practices.
Youth Participation
Environmental literacy in society enables individuals from different sectors to understand environmental issues and make informed decisions. This education aims to raise public awareness about the functioning of ecosystems, resource management, and sustainability principles, thereby fostering environmental responsibility.
Environmental Literacy in Society
Environmental education and lifelong learning for adults aim to continuously update individuals' knowledge and awareness of environmental issues and sustainability. This education helps adults across various age groups adopt sustainable lifestyles and encourages eco-friendly behaviors.
Environmental Education for Adults - Lifelong Learning
The promotion of environmental education aims to increase environmental sustainability awareness across humanity and adopt environmental impact reduction strategies. This process ensures that environmental awareness is integrated into all layers of society by adapting educational materials and methods for various demographic groups.
Dissemination of Environmental Education
Climate change and adaptation education aims to help individuals and communities understand and develop strategies to adapt to the impacts of climate change, natural disasters and changing climate. Education offers a variety of methods and tools to increase climate change awareness and develop adaptation strategies.
Climate Change and Adaptation Education
Water management involves comprehensive planning, monitoring, and control activities to ensure the effective and sustainable use of water resources. It aims to promote water conservation by maintaining water quantity and quality as well as efficient use of resources.
Water Management
The zero waste approach aims to minimize waste production and reduce environmental impact by reusing, recycling, or recovering existing waste as an energy source. This strategy promotes efficient resource use and supports an eco-friendly lifestyle.
Zero Waste Approach
Environmental training in corporate life aims to increase companies' environmental responsibilities and promote sustainable business practices. This training provides employees with knowledge on energy efficiency, waste management, and environmental impact reduction, contributing to aligning corporate strategies with eco-friendly and sustainable practices.
Environmental Education in Corporate Life
Local governments and environmental education encompass training and awareness activities that support municipalities and local administrations in achieving their environmental sustainability goals. This education provides local governments and communities with information on environmental protection, waste management, and sustainability.
Local Governments and Environmental Education
New technologies for a sustainable future refer to innovative solutions that support environmental sustainability and aim to reduce negative impacts on ecosystems. These technologies offer significant advancements in various fields to enable more efficient resource use and play a critical role in combating climate change and preventing environmental degradation, contributing to building a more sustainable future.
New Technologies for a Sustainable Future
Eco-anxiety can have negative effects on learning and motivation within the educational process due to environmental concerns. Developing strategies to address eco-anxiety in educational practices can help individuals manage these concerns and improve their learning about sustainability issues.
The Effect of Eco-Anxiety on Educational Studies
Media and environmental education enhance the use of media tools to effectively communicate environmental issues and build environmental awareness in society. This approach aims to report on environmental problems and promote sustainability practices.
Media and Environmental Education
Art is a powerful, effective, and motivating tool for increasing environmental awareness in environmental education. Visual and auditory arts, performance, and other forms of creative expression present environmental issues in impactful and accessible ways, strengthening the public's environmental awareness.
The Role of Art and Culture in Environmental Education
Evaluating the effectiveness of environmental education programs is a process to determine whether the methods used have met their objectives. This evaluation measures the impact of programs based on factors such as participant knowledge, behavior changes, and increased environmental awareness, providing feedback for continuous improvement.
Measuring Success: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Environmental Education Programs
Literature raises societal awareness through publications addressing environmental themes and issues. Novels, poems, and stories deeply explore environmental problems, encouraging readers to understand and internalize environmental awareness and sustainable behaviors.
The Role of Literature in Environmental Education
Environmental philosophy examines the role of nature and the environment in human life and the ethical and philosophical foundations of these relationships, while environmental ethics addresses the moral requirements of combating environmental problems and the responsibility of people for their impact on nature. Environmental law includes legal regulations and rules that promote the protection of natural resources, the prevention of environmental damage, and sustainable development. These areas determine the basic principles of living in harmony with nature and how these principles are applied at the social and legal level.
Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, and Law