Spreading Environmental Awareness Through Environmental Education in Schools: The Case Study of a Sikkimese Green School

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-246
Author(s):  
Jwala D. Thapa
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Supreme Court Of India ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Green School ◽  
The Creation

The subject of environmental education (EE) in India, also known as environment studies (EVS), was introduced through the intervention of the Supreme Court of India (SC). At that time, there was also global recognition towards the creation of ‘environmental citizens’ through inculcating environmental awareness in school-going children, with the motto of ‘catch them young’. Since then, EE in India has seen an evolution in itself through enveloping the studies of various topics related to the natural environment. However, one of the concerns has been that it is taught in a theoretical manner and that since it is not treated as a graded subject, schools have not given it the importance it deserves. However, the study of a green school of the Himalayan state of Sikkim shows that active participation of state machinery, coupled with a practical interpretation of its principles, can lead to positive results. It also shows that the creation of environmental citizens needs a holistic approach, through both amalgamation of theory with practice and syllabus with stringent state intervention and results-oriented action. This article, which uses doctrinal, as well as field research, techniques of interview and observation, looks into these aspects through studying a school in a mountain village of West Sikkim in India.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN MODUL PENGETAHUAN LINGKUNGAN BERBASIS POTENSI LOKAL UNTUK MENUMBUHKAN SIKAP PEDULI LINGKUNGAN MAHASISWA PENDIDIKAN BIOLOGI

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Reni Marlina ◽  
Basuki Hardigaluh ◽  
Mr. Yokhebed
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Scientific Attitude ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Validation Score

Biology education students should not only have pedagogic competence but also personality, so that they are not only proficient in mastering learning material, but also has a scientific attitude. The purpose of this study was to measure the feasibility of environmental education module based on local potency in the form of case studies in developing biology education students’ environmental awareness. The module is validated by subject experts and media experts. Based on the criteria of validity, the average validation score were  2.62  from subject matter experts and 2.63 from media experts which were categorized as valid. The module then tested on six biology education students and environmental awareness questionnaire resulted in an average score of 74.28 which was categorized as good. Keywords: case study, environmental education module, environmental awareness, local potency, pre-service biology teacherABSTRAKMahasiswa pendidikan Biologi tidak hanya harus memiliki kompetensi pedagogik namun juga kompetensi kepribadian, sehingga tidak hanya cakap dalam penguasaan materi pembelajaran, namun juga memiliki sikap ilmiah. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengukur kelayakan modul pengetahuan lingkungan berbasis potensi lokal bermuatan studi kasus dalam membentuk sikap peduli lingkungan mahasiswa pendidikan Biologi. Modul tersebut divalidasi  oleh ahli materi dan ahli media. Berdasarkan kriteria kevalidan, maka rata-rata total validasi dari ahli materi dan ahli media diperoleh sebesar 2,62 dan 2,63 yang termasuk dalam kategori valid. Modul kemudian diujicobakan pada enam mahasiswa pendidikan Biologi dan hasil angket kepedulian lingkungan menghasilkan skor rata-rata 74,28 yang termasuk dalam kategori baik.Kata kunci: calon guru Biologi, kepedulian lingkungan, modul pengetahuan lingkungan, potensi lokal, studi kasus,

scholarly journals The ‘Essential Practices’ Doctrine

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Dushyant Kishan Kaul
Keyword(s):  
State Intervention ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Constitutional Protection ◽  
Supreme Court Of India ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Essential State ◽  
Maximum Protection ◽  
The Right

Abstract This article explores how the Supreme Court of India, in applying the judicial doctrine of ‘essential practices’, has embarked on a dangerous exercise of determining whether a particular religious practice is significant enough to warrant constitutional protection under Article 25(1) or not. In tracing a string of judgments, it shows how courts have been guilty of making ill-founded observations about the validity of religious practices, thereby detrimentally affecting religious groups and minorities. Due to this constitutional transgression, the question of ‘what is essentially religious’ turned into the question of ‘what is essential in religion’. The court has neither the right nor the expertise to decide if the religious practice indeed is ‘essential’. State intervention is warranted only based on constitutionally stipulated restrictions of ‘public order’, ‘morality’ and ‘health’. The cardinal rule ought to be of limited state intervention but maximum protection.

scholarly journals Perception of Environmental Education and Awareness Among Mass People: A Case Study of Tangail District

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
SA Mamun ◽  
A Nessa ◽  
M Aktar ◽  
MR Hossain ◽  
ASM Saifullah
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
The Status ◽  
Education And Awareness

At present environmental education is emerging across the globe although this is a quite new phenomenon in Bangladesh. The present study was attempted to know about the environmental education and awareness among the mass people of Tangail town. In order to conduct this research, a questionnaire survey was carried out and interview was undertaken among 100 respondents in Tangail District. This paper describes some findings to understand the status of environmental awareness among people of different age groups of Tangail district. Moreover, this paper enables to provide some suggestions to extend environmental education and awareness to make a decent and ethical life as well as to keep the environment sustainable.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jesnr.v5i2.14828 J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 5(2): 263-266 2012

scholarly journals EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NOS ANOS INICIAIS DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL: ESTRATÉGIAS PARA SENSIBILIZAÇÃO DOS ALUNOS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 360-373
Author(s):  
Iara Késia Alves dos Santos ◽  
Antonio Jarbas Barros de Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Reading And Writing

Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é promover entre os alunos do 2º ano do ensino Fundamental I da EEIEF Aristides Floriano de Oliveira, no município de Acaraú do estado brasileiro do Ceará, uma sensibilização ambiental por meio de estratégias de forma interdisciplinar. Trata-se de um estudo de caso, no qual foram utilizadas metodologias de leitura e escrita em diferentes disciplinas com a temática ambiental, que estimulou a criticidade e a criatividade dos alunos. Com a conclusão das atividades, promoveu-se uma socialização junto a outras turmas da escola para que os alunos mostrassem suas produções em forma de mural. Os resultados mostraram que as atividades realizadas sensibilizaram os alunos para mudanças expressivas de comportamento em relação ao meio ambiente, auxiliando de forma significativa na alfabetização.Palavras-chave: Educação Ambiental. Alfabetização. Interdisciplinaridade. Sensibilização. Abstract: The objective of this work is to promote among the students of the 2nd year of Elementary Education I of EEIEF Aristides Floriano de Oliveira, in the municipality of Acaraú-CE, an environmental awareness through strategies in an interdisciplinary way. This is a case study, in which reading and writing methodologies were used in different subjects with an environmental theme, which stimulated the students' criticality and creativity. With the completion of the activities, socialization was promoted with other classes of the school so that students could show their productions in the form of a mural. The results showed that the activities carried out sensitized students to expressive changes in behavior in relation to the environment, helping significantly in literacy.Keywords: Environmental Education. Literacy. Interdisciplinarity. Awareness.

Non-Cognitive Signals and Systems

2020 ◽  
pp. 260-282
Author(s):  
Jeff D. Borden
Keyword(s):  
Student Success ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Technological Systems ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
The Creation

Student success initiatives in practice, underlying technological infrastructure, and human processes, focus almost exclusively on cognitive signals for risk, persistence, and other alert factors. Yet decades of research suggest that these signals are quite limited because learners are not compartmentalized as cognitive beings vs affective beings vs conative beings. This chapter looks to inform the creation of both technological and human measurement as well as intervention techniques for a much more holistic approach to student success efforts as told through a case study of such a system. The chapter will help technologists, researchers, and service-practitioners alike in building workflows and technological systems to promote better inputs, better triggers, and better outputs, all for human consumption in the assistance of helping students thrive.

scholarly journals Reclaiming Urban Space: A Study of Community Gardens in Poznań

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 131-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Maćkiewicz ◽  
Raúl Puente Asuero ◽  
Krystyna Pawlak
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Photographic Documentation ◽  
The City

Abstract In this paper, we discuss the presence of community gardens in urban spaces and the types of activities performed there, using the city of Poznań as a case study. First, based on interviews with representatives of selected non-governmental organisations, analyses of available Internet sources as well as our own field research, cartographic and photographic documentation, we identify community gardens in the space of the city and explore their formation process. In the course of our study we also concentrate on the type of garden location. In addition, we devote our attention to the gardens which have disappeared from the fabric of the city. Our study reveals that community gardens currently operating in Poznań are established in non-central locations. These gardens are scattered in various parts of the city. Only in the Łazarz district there are two community gardens. Most frequently, community gardens are established on plots between old blocks of flats and tenement houses. Two gardens are located on underdeveloped greenery near the Warta River and in two city parks. A detailed examination of the events held in the community gardens in the Łazarz district in the years 2014–2017 shows that they had a very diversified character. Both of them turned out to be multifunctional, i.e. hosted meetings devoted to agriculture and horticulture, environmental education, artistic events, DIY and recreation. However, the percentage of events in the structure of the meetings organised in the gardens differed considerably.

Monitoring via the Courts: Judicial Oversight and Police Violence in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 699-709
Author(s):  
Shengkuo Hu ◽  
Courtenay R Conrad
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Fire Alarm ◽  
Supreme Court Of India ◽  
Local Police ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Court Mandated ◽  
Police Abuse

Abstract Can the creation of court-mandated accountability institutions improve human rights? In this article, we investigate the extent to which court-ordered accountability institutions decrease government repression in the form of police violence. We argue that the creation of regional bodies to which citizens report allegations of police abuse provides “fire-alarm” oversight by which police officers can be monitored for abuses of power. To test the implications of our theory, we take advantage of variance in the implementation of Prakash Singh and Others v. Union of India and Others, a 2006 judgment by the Supreme Court of India requiring states and districts to establish local Police Complaints Authorities (PCAs). Using a difference-in-difference design, we show the implementation of state PCAs to be associated with statistically and substantively significant decreases in human rights violations by Indian police officers.

scholarly journals Evolution of Collaborative Networks Supporting Startup Sustainability: Evidences from Digital Firms

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9437
Author(s):  
Renato Passaro ◽  
Ivana Quinto ◽  
Pierluigi Rippa ◽  
Antonio Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Collaborative Networks ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Entrepreneurial Networks ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Resource Networks

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether startup evolution can be conceptualized in a life cycle model intended as an unpredictable sequence of stages, where startups need to find actors with whom to collaborate to acquire knowledge and resources supporting the effectiveness and the sustainability of their mission. The creation and implementation of collaborative networks is observed through the lens of the holistic approach to the entrepreneurial ecosystem, whose purpose is to build “bridges” between different actors through the creation of communities of best practices or entrepreneurial networks. The creation of a specific ecosystem is suggested to ease the new digital entrepreneurship generation toward acquiring an appropriate level of knowledge, skills, financial facilitations, and entrepreneurial culture. Following a multiple case study analysis based on nine successful Italian digital firms, the empirical evidence seems to confirm that firms collaborate with different actors in different stages, as knowledge and resource networks play a critical role in sustaining the evolution and success of new firms.

‘Using’ Crisis of Governance as an Opportunity for ‘Re-invention’: Why the Supreme Court of India Took To Hearing Public Interest Litigations—A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-223
Author(s):  
Subrata Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Indian Politics ◽  
Supreme Court Of India ◽  
The People ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Right

What do the different State organs do when they face a crisis? Do the suffering institutions successfully re-invent themselves or is it that some other institution uses the crisis to find an ‘opportunity’ to re-invent itself? Can one’s crisis be another’s opportunity? This case-study analyses how the Supreme Court of India (hereinafter SCI) reinvented itself in a bid to further the cause of good governance in the country ever since emergency had been clamped on the nation towards the end of 1970s. Surely there has been a crisis of governance in India, caused by the pathetic performance of both the legislature and the executive. It has led to myriad problems in both social and political arenas. If left unaddressed, Indian people might have turned more violent than they already are and that could have perpetrated a failure of democracy in the country. But the SCI has successfully played a positive role in this regard. If the other institutions have failed the people, the Supreme Court has championed their cause. The world’s largest democracy stands saved until now. But is it wholly the judges’ heartfelt concern for the people that has prompted the Supreme Court to function in this fashion? Did anything go wrong during the emergency? Why is it that it has been more and more active ever since the emergency ended? And why is it that there has been an exponential growth in public interest litigations (hereinafter PILs) in the Supreme Court even though it cannot handle so many cases because of infrastructural paucities? Situating itself in the specific context of PILs entertained by the SCI and supporting it with the theoretical inputs of the so-called ‘principal-agent framework’, this essay argues that there has been a competition (i.e., between the court and the elected politicians) for ‘occupying’ more space in the domain of governance since the inception of the Constitution and it is only the Supreme Court that got the right ‘opportunity’ to achieve its objective in the wake of crisis in governance that became so visible in Indian politics ever since the fag-end of the 1970s. While the court tried other instruments earlier in its game plan vis-a-vis the elected politicians, the crisis situation since the end of the 1970s made it ‘invent’ a new tool in the form of PILs capable of safeguarding the interests of the people and insulating them against the mindless functioning of multiple state agencies. But how far can the SCI (hereinafter SCI) proceed with this new tool? Is there a risk of ‘overusing’ it? Does the court not have its own limitations in this regard, too? What should the Supreme Court do in order to avert a fresh ‘crisis’?

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