environmental education
Sign in to saveAlso known as environmental learning, EE, environmental science education, environmental science teaching
branch of pedagogy
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Moroccan students watching birds at Nador lagoon during the activities organized by SEO/BirdLife during the World Wetlands Day in Morocco
Environmental education (EE) refers to organized efforts to teach how natural environments function, and particularly, how human beings can manage behavior and ecosystems to live sustainably. It is a multi-disciplinary field integrating disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, ecology, earth science, atmospheric science, mathematics, and geography.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “environmental education” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.