Review on School Based Environmental Club Impact on Student and General Environment

Umer Abdela

doi:10.7176/cer/12-6-02

Abstract

Environmental clubs plays an important role in creating environmental awareness for the future generation. Environmental clubs performs activities to save the environment, through activities like planting trees, increasing pollution impact on environment. Environmental clubs is a platform on which knowledge about environment is gained early during childhood. They offer programs and activities to encourage others to reduce pollution, plant trees, and more through voluntary group which promotes the participation of students in learning about, and improving their environment. Therefore, this paper was sets out to review the impact of school based environmental club on student and environment in general. The findings of those reports related to the selected topic and an objective was organized from student and environmental perspectives from different published and unpublished materials found. The review result concluded as it is a wonderful opportunity to create awareness, build attitudes and help students take up activities in real world in which the constraints of the classroom and curriculum will not allow. An Environmental clubs can thus help to extend boundaries and scope of the formal educational system encouraging creativity, and improving students for constructive action. The environmental activity performed by environmental club a group contributes for environmental conservation at varies level from increasing awareness for community to direct intervention in conservation works. Although environmental club contribution is evident there is also number of challenges related financial and knowledge gaps. So increasing funding, training on Environmental Education, integration of Environmental Education in all primary and secondary school curriculum, support from government and other donors should be with the environmental club to expect more result. Keywords: - environmental club, environment, Environmental education, impact, student DOI: 10.7176/CER/12-6-02 Publication date: June 30 th 2020

Highlights

Environmental education deals with man’s relationship with his natural and man-made surroundings
Environmental education was born of the realization that solving complex local and global problems cannot be accomplished by politicians and experts alone, but requires "the support and active participation of an informed public in their various roles as consumers, voters, employers, and business and community leaders (Saylan, C. and Blumstein, D., 2011)
From the review it could be concluded that when learners participate in environmental clubs activities their environmental knowledge competences are improved possibly due to exposure gained from interaction with the nature

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Introduction

Environmental education deals with man’s relationship with his natural and man-made surroundings. The roots of environmental education can be traced back as early as the 18th century when Jean-Jacques Rousseau stressed the importance of an education that focuses on the environment in Emile: or, On Education. Environmental education has been considered an additional or elective subject in much of traditional curriculum (Minton, 1980). Conservation Education was a major scientific management and planning tool that helped solve social, economic, and environmental problems during this time period. Environmental education was born of the realization that solving complex local and global problems cannot be accomplished by politicians and experts alone, but requires "the support and active participation of an informed public in their various roles as consumers, voters, employers, and business and community leaders (Saylan, C. and Blumstein, D., 2011)

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