Abstract
The massive destruction brought by “Bagyong Sendong” in 2011 shook the people in Mindanao, with the realization that the only hope to recover from this grave condition is by making every person conscious to protect the environment. With this tragedy, it is of great importance that Department of Education (DepEd) officials, students, and teachers must: synergize toward environmental sustainability, serve as agents to boost public environmental awareness and demonstrate commitment to environmental protection. Realizing the truth of these words, this study determined the level of implementation of the environmental sustainability program of the selected public schools in General Santos City (GSC). In addition, this study proposes an innovative environmental framework to promote environmental education, which is an indispensable means to attain environmental awareness that addresses environmental issues. The respondents of this study were the 350 public elementary and high school teachers. Results of the study revealed that the environmental program of selected public schools in GSC was implemented only to a moderate extent. Finally, recommendations on how to effectively promote innovative environmental advocacy, which may lead to significant enhancements to environmental awareness, were also discussed in this study.
Highlights
Recommendations on how to effectively promote innovative environmental advocacy, which may lead to significant enhancements to environmental awareness, were discussed in this study
This study investigated the level of environmental sustainability program implementation of selected public schools of General Santos City (GSC)
All programs were rated moderate except for the tree planting program which was rated fair in implementation. These results indicate that the majority of the environmental sustainability programs of elementary and secondary schools were included in the strategic plan of the schools and that they were reasonably performed and mediocre in its implementation
Summary
Recommendations on how to effectively promote innovative environmental advocacy, which may lead to significant enhancements to environmental awareness, were discussed in this study. Schools play a vital role in environmental development, sustainability and dissemination of ideas. This requires everyone at schools—teachers, researchers, students, administrators and community--- to draw-up action plans to ensure that education supports the development of environmental awareness and sustainability. Our society needs government leaders with transformed perspective towards environmental sustainability since leaders have special responsibilities in promoting environmental education as one of the key agents to achieve sustainable development. This, needs an environmental protection program which necessitates synergy among various institutions and government offices to demonstrate their role towards sustainability of the environment.
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