Environmental education in the context of the Romanian education reform
Environmental education in the context of the Romanian education reform

Summary/Abstract: Environmental education is not just a form of education, a tool for solving environmental problems or for managing natural resources. It is a process of an essential dimension in recognizing the environmental values and in defining the environmental concepts, aimed at improving the quality of life. This type of education aims at inducing, especially within the educational institutions, social dynamics of education (knowledge, skills, motivations, values), which to stimulate personal development, collaborative and critical approach, but also the assumption of responsibilities for the decisions taken for maintaining the environmental quality. Environmental education sets its sights on the formation and development of problem-solving capabilities triggered with the social-scale application of the industrial and post-industrial technologies, which have recorded many negative effects in the nature and in the human existence. Among the directions envisaged in the Romanian education reform, the curricular reform is an essential segment, which is now a distinct theme in the sciences of education. The new approach to National Curriculum has generated a different type of curriculum culture characterized by inter and trans-disciplinary approach to school curriculum. An integrated approach to the curriculum, as an alternative or complementary method of the disciplinary curriculum, is a constant of the recent curricular policies. Environmental education’s integration into school curriculum can be achieved by the following four steps of designing the training content: the infusional approach, the modular approach, the disciplinary approach, the transdisciplinary approach. It is estimated that environmental education can not be integrated in a single area of knowledge, but for being a complex process requires the involvement of specialists and researchers from different fields, namely an interdisciplinary approach.

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