Environmental education at the school level in SAARC countries

Abstract

Environmental Education is a subject matter which deals with the different environmental newlineissues like environmental problems, its protection, environmental knowledge, awareness, newlinerelation between environment and human being etc. and teaches us about the proper use of our newlineenvironmental resources. The importance of Environmental Education is not ignorable now. newlineMaximum countries of the world have great concentration on it specially SAARC countries. newlineSAARC (Intergovernmental organization) has one working area on environment and its related newlineissues. newlineSince very little work has been done in the context of environmental education in the SAARC newlinecountries and understandably it is imperative to understand the mode of curriculum transaction newlineand evaluation in this particular field to create a better aware citizenry in future, this present newlinestudy was formulated and designed to analyse the same. newlineThe researcher started her study with the review of related literature regarding Environmental newlineEducation and found related comparative and country wise study at the SAARC area. After newlinereviewing a lot of related literature, researcher had selected her research problem. The problem newlineof the present study was attempt to find out the nature of Environmental Education at school newlinelevel in SAARC countries, where the main emphasis was the present status/ nature of newlineEnvironmental Education curriculum with respect to curriculum objectives, curriculum newlinecontent, transaction policy and also evaluation system. For this study, researcher considered newlinethe eight south Asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri newlineLanka and Afghanistan) under SAARC area. Therefore the researcher stated the title of the newlinestudy as: Environmental Education at the School Level in SAARC Countries . newline