The Development of Environmental Education Policy and Programs in Korea: Promoting Sustainable Development in School Environmental Education

Author(s):  
Hye-Eun Chu ◽  
Yeon-A Son
1992 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 115-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Greenall Gough

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between national economic and political priorities and environmental education policy formulation and curriculum strategies. This relationship will be placed in the historical context of developments in environmental education in Australia from 1970 until the present and will be analysed in terms of the ideological and pedagogical stances implicit, and explicit, in the developments during this period. I will argue that the emphasis throughout the period has been to sustain the development of environmental education without any questioning of why, what and how this development should occur.‘Sustainable development’ has become a slogan for governments, industry and conservation groups in recent times. It was the subtitle for the World Conservation Strategy (IUCN 1980) and the National Conservation Strategy for Australia (DHAE 1984) - living resource conservation for sustainable development - and was popularised in the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, more commonly known as the Brundtland Report or Our Common Future (WCED 1987). The definition of sustainable development given in the World Conservation Strategy (IUCN 1980: section 1.3) and repeated in the National Conservation Strategy for Australia (DHAE 1984: 12) is as follows:Development is…the modification of the biosphere and the application of human, financial, living and non-living resources to satisfy human needs and improve the quality of human life. For development to be sustainable it must take account of social and ecological factors, as well as economic ones; of the living and nonliving resource base; and of the long term as well as the short term advantages and disadvantages of alternative actions.


Author(s):  
Carlos Hiroo Saito

Quando se fala em Questões Globais e educação ambiental, muitos pensam nas mudanças climáticas como questão global. A força dessa temática chega a levar alguns até a falar em uma Educação em Mudanças climáticas. Rejeita-se essas novas terminologias, mantendo-se o termo Educação Ambiental. Por meio de uma sistemática de investigação, com base nas decisões da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), são levantados os temas que foram estrategicamente definidos pela ONU como sendo a pauta prioritária para o globo. Uma visão sistêmica dessas questões globais e suas interdependências é construída. A partir dessa visão sistêmica, princípios e objetivos da Educação Ambiental tanto na Política Nacional de Educação Ambiental como em conferências internacionais são analisados para avaliar os desafios postos à Educação Ambiental a partir destas questões globais. When we talk about Global Issues and environmental education, people usually think about climate change as the global issue. The strength of this theme leads some people to talk about Education in Climate Change. These new terminologies are rejected, and the term Environmental Education is held. Through a systematic research, based on the decisions of the United Nations (UN), they are identified those issues that have been strategically defined as the priority agenda for the globe. A systemic view of these global issues and their interdependencies is built. From this systemic view, principles and objectives of Environmental Education in both the Brazilian National Environmental Education Policy and in the international conferences are analyzed to evaluate the challenges posed to Environmental Education from these global issues.


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