User:Lambudai/Environmental studies

Environmental studies spans several disciplines. This study uses sciences like chemistry, physics, botany, zoology, physiology, geography, geology, geophysics, and metrology. Mankind's unrestricted exploitation of nature (environment) for the purpose of growth has jeopardized the life of not just humans but all other living species. Environmental awareness education is essential not just for environmental scientists, engineers, politicians, or non-governmental organizations, but also for each of us.Environmental education also educates individuals how to comprehend their role in the environment and how to survive in a world with limited natural resources in order to avert future calamities.As a result, to address environmental issues, effective education and public awareness are required. Environmental studies will contribute to this goal by providing adequate information of the philosophy, genesis, and repercussions of local and global environmental issues, as well as the knowledge needed to mitigate and regulate them. Environmental education's main goal is to instill in all members of society a pro-environmental thinking and attitude. This will help to create environmental ethics and raise people's awareness of the importance of environmental protection and biodiversity.

In the 1960s, the word "environment" became one of the most commonly used in educational discourse in the United Kingdom. Educationists were becoming increasingly worried about the influence of the environment on children as well as the school's usage of the environment. The attempt to define the field of environmental studies has resulted in a discussion over its role in the curriculum. The use of the environment is one of the teaching approaches used in today's schools to carry on the legacy of educational philosophy known as 'Progressive education' or 'New education' in the first part of the twentieth century. The primary goal of environmental studies is to assist children in understanding the processes that influence their surroundings so that they do not stay a passive, and often befuddled, observer of the environment, but rather become knowledgeable active mediators of it. The study of the environment can be considered to offer unique chances for the development and exercise of the general cognitive skills that Piaget's work has made educators aware of. Environmental studies are increasingly being viewed as a long-term preparation for higher environmental studies such as Sociology, Archaeology, or Historical Geography.