Presented at the HSci 2006 - 3rd International Conference on Hands-on Science, September 4th - 9th, 2006, Braga, Portugal, pp. 409-413 of the proceedings published by the University of Minho.
Non-formal environmental education in the Greek schools.
Theodore Antoniou,
Doctoral
Student at the Department for Primary Education, The
P. G. Michaelides,
Professor,
Department for Primary Education, The
(*)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 education
constitutes a major component of the Greek schools’ activities. It is delivered
as formal education, as optional education programs and as informal activities.
The formal education includes specific courses or, more often, modules and
related activities within the syllabus of all the school subjects. The optional
education programs take place outside the normal school hours, usually in the
form of ‘environmental education groups’ studying in depth a specific
environmental issue. The informal activities are within the context of the
school culture in its daily operation. In this work, we present a review of the
optional environmental education programs during the previous years as they
were implemented by the schools of Heraklion, a prefecture in the area of
Crete, which may be considered as representative of the whole Greece.