Experts recommend document to reform environmental education
KEPS center organizes virtual workshop
KUWAIT CITY, July 14: The virtual ‘expert workshop’, organized by the Sabah Al-Ahmad Environmental Training Center at the Kuwait Environment Protection Society (KEPS) recommended preparing a document to reform the environmental education and include curricula for
evaluating behavior in this regard, through a package of recommendations concluded by environmental educational experts participating in the workshop.
The KEPS Vice-President, Abdul-Amir Al-Jazzaf, said “the second expert workshop organized by the Sabah Al-Ahmad Environmental Training Center in the association dealt by default with “environmental education” to support education for sustainable development in different educational curricula for all ages and educational levels, indicating that it covers environmental aspects.
He said, it contributes to preparing solutions to enhance the knowledge, behavior and experiences of the student and the teacher, to raise their scientific competence and provide them with skills, to become responsible members of the community.
Realistic
It also aims to prepare realistic and feasible solutions from the opinion of experts and civil society organizations and to present them in a document to stakeholders.Al-Jazzaf pointed out that the association organized the workshop via Zoom technology, in cooperation with ‘Wara Environmental Consulting’, ‘Ecolife Science’, ‘Vision Consulting’ and the ‘Ain Shams University’ of Egypt, in which about 50 academics, environmental and educational experts from Kuwait, the Gulf Cooperation Council and other countries participated.
He pointed out “some of them presented recommendations for preparing what they called a “solutions document” and suggestions for the inclusion of educational curricula to evaluate environmental behavior and achieve sustainable development goals related to the environment and link them in all areas of daily life.”