Presented at the HSci 2006 - 3rd International Conference on Hands-on Science, September 4th - 9th, 2006, Braga, Portugal, pp. 404-409 of the proceedings published by the University of Minho.
Issues of environmental risk management in the Greek schools.
Theodore Antoniou,
TVE Teacher, Doctoral Student at the Department for Primary Education, The University of Crete, antoniou@edc.uoc.gr
P. G. Michaelides,
Professor, Department for Primary Education, The University of Crete, michail@edc.uoc.gr
(*)This work has been partially funded by the European Commission (project OIKOS, Contract 2004 - I/04/B/F/PP-154025). Neither the Commission nor the authors of this work may be held responsible for any use of the information provided here.
Abstract. Environmental issues, especially these involving environmental hazards show an ever-increasing concern in our modern technology dependant societies. Some of these hazards may be attributed mainly to natural causes (for example earthquakes, flood …) while others are due to human activity (for example water pollution, chemical factories’ leaks …). Due to the high population concentrations observed these days and the intense environmental exploitation an otherwise environmental disaster may lead to catastrophic effects. Consequently there is a need for environmental risk management including measures of prevention, of anticipation, of deterrence etc. In all these aspects, the active cooperation of the public may be proved very useful if the people involved are literate to the subject an issue where school education may be proved appropriate. In this work, we present how environmental risk management and related issues are considered within the formal school curricula in the Greece.