EDUCIVIS- GRUNDTVIG WORKSHOP

EDUCATION FOR

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

AND USING RENEWABLE RESOURCES

OF YOUNG STUDENTS

8-15 May, Senigallia

• MOTTO: « The World is changing, so the people are

changing with it. In the whole Europe, the responsible person of education tries to reduce the differences between the education received by young people in schools and the demands of future professional life.

(Yves Deforge, 1969)»

To have an ecological behavior?

What keeps us?

Concience aspect

Information aspect Emotional aspect

BARRIERS

Handing over the responsibility

Timing perspective

Environmental problems could not be found out

directly

The relation between

cause and effect are

difficult to be realized

Excuses, fears

The individuals does not percept

correctly the relation between cause and effect

Antropological barriers

Social-cultural barriers

The ecological behavior is in a real conflict with the average behavior

Average people has difficulties to change the behaviors into

an ecological one.

Social- ecological dilemma

Changing the values of life

Expansion

quantity

Competition

Rationality

Analysis

Domination

Materialist mentality

Reductionlism Integration

The w

ay o

f th

inki

ng

Valu

es

Ecological mentality

Partnership

Cooperation

Quality

Maintaining

Syntesis

Intuition

IntegrationSelf affirmation

In European schools we can take little simple steps to educate young students for sustainable development and to use renewable resources to produce green energy.

What can be these steps?????

Environmental awareness training

Empowerment of citizens on environmental issues Interviews, surveys and questionnaires implemented

Attracting students into environmental action, competitions and performances on topics related to knowledge,

conservation and environmental protection;

Developing a sense of respect and love for nature, realizing the negative effects of human activities on the environment;

The World without water becomes colorless

You take care of water and your life will be colorful

Encourage and advise students in writing and conducting their own projects for environmental protection

and the use of renewable resources

Laboratory / School environmental clubs

Changing behavior of individuals, including students, to the acute problem posed by the waste

More responsibility for green areas in the vicinity of schools

Development of civic responsibility of students

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Authors

Aydin SAHIN, TURKEYAynur UZER, TURKEY

Diana Virginia GRAMESCU, ROMANIAMehmet Salim YORGANCILAR, TURKEY