“Environmental Education” in its broadest sense allows individuals to raise awareness and acquire new perspectives, values, knowledge and skills that leads to changed behaviour in support of an ecologically sustainable approach to the environment.
Principles of environmental education:
- Environmental Education must involve everyone.
- Environmental Education must be lifelong.
- Environmental Education must be holistic and about connections.
- Environmental Education must be practical.
- Environmental Education must be in harmony with social and economic goals and accorded equal priority.
Source: From ‘Environmental Education for a Sustainable Future: National Action Plan’ (2000), Canberra: Environment Australia.