A Study on Environmental Education Purpose achieved within the first phase of the UNESCO-UNEP’s International Environmental Education Programme

Abstract

Environmental Education (EE) goals, objectives and guiding principles in the Belgrade Charter are well known, but those in the recommendations of the Tbilisi Intergovernmental Conference on EE have not been reviewed in Japan.

Ideas on EE goals, objectives and guiding principles stated in the following documents within the first phase of the UNESCO-UNEP’s International EE Programme (IEEP) were reviewed in this paper; the Belgrade Charter, Trends in EE, A Synthetic Report of Regional Meetings of Experts on EE, Education and the Challenge of Environmental Problems, the Tbilisi Declaration, and the Recommendations of the Tbilisi Conference.

According to the review, EE purpose as an international consensus were clarified in the present view, as follows; to develop a world population toward a sustainable society who have knowledge, attitudes, values and skills for environmental conservation, can consider environmental issues globally and in view of various relationships between man and his environment, can practice an ecological life, and can actively participate in the action to save the environment in every level including the decision making processes.