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Environmental Education Contribution to Quality of Environment: Belgrade Polytechnics College

Author(s): Vesna Alivojvodić, Šimon A. Đarmati
Subject(s): Environmental interactions, Sociology of Education
Published by: HESPERIAedu
Keywords: Belgrade Polytechnic; survey; environment; environmental education

Summary/Abstract: Final year students of the College of Professional Studies - Belgrade Polytechnics have been conducting the professional research projects for several years, with the aim of contributing to a better environment of the City of Belgrade. The goal of these projects, is to raise awareness of citizens, and point to the current environmental problems at the local level, as well as, to point the way of resolving them. Following research projects had been undertaken over the past five years: Belgrade citizens’ attitudes towards recycling (2008), Attitudes of school kids from Palilula schools about waste with focus on electrical and electronic waste (2009), Readiness of Belgrade citizens for acceptance of implementation of new waste management methods (2010), Research on handling of unusable medicines, with the proposal for improvement of current measures for disposal of such waste (2011), School kids attitudes towards the state of the environment in Belgrade and suggestions for improvement of it (2012). Students of the Department of Design participated in some of these projects, and significantly contributed, with their solutions, to visualization of researched matter. The most interesting results of these studies are presented in this paper.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 59-76
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Serbian