Environmental Sustainability and Education for Waste Management by Unknown

Environmental Sustainability and Education for Waste Management by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811391736
Publisher: Springer Singapore


9.5.3 Waste Management and Recycling Education Infusion into the National Curriculum Framework

In addition to school activities, environmental education is infused into the school curriculum as suggested by environmental education scholars and practitioners. In 2001, environmental education, as an important issue, was required to be infused into the Grades 1–9 National Curriculum Framework. The curriculum was reformed in 2016 when environmental education was required to be integrated into the Grades 1–12 National Curriculum Framework as one of the four important educational issues. The three other issues are human rights, gender equality, and ocean education. The new Grades 1–12 National Curriculum Framework will be effective in 2018. Environmental education has been infused into school curricula for more than 15 years. The integration tremendously impacted school teachers and students, and its development clarified the goals and contents of environmental education in Taiwan.

The major activity of environmental education, according to teachers and parents, is recycling. Waste classification and recycling have been major parts of the environmental education project since the 1980s, although they are merely activities or projects and not included in the school curriculum. The consensus that environmental education was too important to be absent from school curricula was reached. When environmental education was infused into the Grades 1–9 National Curriculum Framework in 2001, the concepts of waste management and recycling education were incorporated into the curriculum. As a subject of the national curriculum, waste management and recycling education became a mandated discipline like Mathematics and Nature Sciences.

The goals, concepts, materials, and instructions of environmental education should be discussed and defined before it can be infused into learning fields. Goals and concepts of environmental education for the 2018 curriculum framework are developed, although teaching materials and relative pedagogy are still underway. Goals are expanded and included ensuring sustainable development for the entire world and its inhabitants. The framework primarily includes five concepts: environmental ethics, sustainable development, climate change, disaster preparedness, and sustainable use of resources and energy. Waste management and recycling are under the concept of sustainable use of resources and energy. The themes of waste management and recycling are described in the national curriculum framework as follows:Grades 1–6 should beAware of the importance of sustainable use of material and energy;



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