Environmental Education in School System

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Environmental Education in School System

• A sub-component of the World Bank supported
  project under India Environment Management
  Capacity Building project undertaken by the
  Ministry of Environment and Forests.
• Centre for Environment Education is assisting the
  MoEF in implementing this.

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Phase I

• Involved a detailed study of textbooks of all the
  states, to analyse environmental content in
  these.
• Also involved a sample study looking at classroom
  transaction of environmental content of
  textbooks.
• A National Consultation involving a wide
  cross-section of stakeholders discussed how to
  strengthen EE in Schools.

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From Phase I

• Based on the studies and processes of Phase I,
  Phase II will take up pilot implementation of
  efforts to strengthen EE in schools in eight
  selected states.
• The pilot implementation will be in Standards 6,
  7 and 8.

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Phase II

• MOUs have been signed between the State
  Departments of Education of these states and the
  Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of
  India.
• The selected states are
• Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir,
  Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab and Uttaranchal

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Phase II Guiding Principles

• The guiding principles for Phase II are
• - environment should not be a separate subject
• - introduction of environmental concepts should
  not constitute any perceptible additionality of
  hours
• - practical, hands-on activities, field
  experiences, work experience etc. are important
  components of EE

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Phase II Major Thrusts

• Within these parameters, this phase includes
• bringing in four major components in each of the
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• selected states
• Strengthening Infusion of Environmental content
  into textbooks
• Creating a separate time and space for
  environment
• Teacher Training
• Use of non-formal methods through the involvement
  of NGOs

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Phase II-Work Plan-Part I

• Selection of states
• Signing of MOUs
• Re-doing textbooks of Science, Social Science,
  and languages for each state
• Selection of 100 schools per state
• Developing other EE programmes and material for
  teachers, students.
• Training master trainers and teachers
• Orienting and involving various stakeholders.

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Phase II-Work Plan-Part 2

• Ongoing, yearlong implementation in about 100
  schools in each state
• Refresher training
• Annual events
• Process documentation, monitoring, evaluation
• Initiatives towards mainstreaming and scaling up
  in the state

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Phase II-Work Plan-Part 3

• Sharing research results through workshops,
  publications, etc.
• The project also envisages some capacity building
  for key persons at state and central level.

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Strengthening Infusion Process

• The first step towards strengthening infusion of
  EE in textbooks was to arrive at a core list of
  concepts for inclusion in the textbooks. This was
  done at a workshop in September

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Strengthening Infusion (2)

• Following this, approaches for greening
  textbooks for the various subjects have been
  developed.
• Model chapters have been developed.

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Strengthening Infusion (3)

• At a central workshop involving the selected
  states, these approaches and sample chapters were
  presented.
• The process for greening state textbooks was
  discussed and finalized.
• Frameworks for selected chapters were developed,
  and sample chapters developed.

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Strengthening Infusion (4)

• States will now be working through their own
  processes to developed drafts of greened
  textbooks.
• CEE will develop certain standard write-ups,
  boxes, case studies, chapters, visuals etc. which
  states could use.