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Wyzwanie edukacyjne: zmiana świadomości ekologicznej warunkiem ciągłości gatunku ludzkiego
Educational challenge: changing the ecological awareness of the continuity of the human species

Author(s): Paweł Zieliński
Subject(s): Education, Energy and Environmental Studies, Political Ecology
Published by: Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie

Summary/Abstract: The educational challenge, the change of the ecological consciousness is the condition of the continuity of the human species. The article contains the main thesis: the threat of the natural environment is the threat for the survival of human species. The author proposes two new pedagogical terms: widely apprehended ecological consciousness and the system idea of the protection of the nature. He also writes about Poles ecological consciousness and describes the various models of the development of present societies, taking into account their relation to the natural environment. The article contains the most important attributes of the ecological education and its representatives as well as characteristic of the kinds of ecological consciousness. The ecological education is presented in global dimension.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 353-368
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish