GREEN SCHOOL
PROGRAMME -DESIGN CELL- ORGANISATION OF GREEN SCHOOL PROGRAMME IN COLLABORATION
WITH CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
What is Green Schools Programme (GSP)?
The field of environment education is dogged by a very
fundamental contradiction. While everyone, everywhere, asserts the importance
of ‘learning to live sustainably’, environment remains a peripheral issue in
the formal schooling system. It continues to be viewed more as an
extracurricular activity and less as a subject with a priority position in the
national curriculum. This is true not only in India but worldwide as
well.Fortunately, it has not deterred many talented, creative and farsighted
educators from experimenting and evolving extremely innovative teaching
methods, materials and practices.
The novelty of CSE’s Green Schools Programme lies in the
fact that it moves beyond theories and textbooks and concentrates solely on
‘doing’. It is an environmental education programme directed to subtly
sensitizing students to the environment through hands-on and thoughtprovoking
activities. It is also an environment management system that audits, through
students, the consumption of natural resources within school campuses and helps
schools become good environmental managers by deploying pragmatic solutions to
reduce wastage of precious resources.
What’s
In It For My School?
Adopting the
programme does not mean that the most complex technological and scientific?
problems that our planet faces today will be fixed instantly. It is too big a
task. But it will:
- Spur
the growth of a more environmentally aware and responsible generation of
citizens;
- Equip
resourceful teachers to foster environmental literacy;
- Help
every member of the school community understand the scope and significance
of his or her role in the sustainable use of natural resources within the
school campus;
- Nudge
everyone to get on with the job.
Benefits:
- The
Green Schools Programme helps move beyond words, jargons and intentions to
practices that CSE believes in. It benchmarks a school’s performance as
environmental managers. The audit measures impact and motivates
participants to work towards change.
- The
monitoring process is participatory and transparent. It encourages
teachers to convert audit tasks into assignments for students. The
initiative-based tasks also test student’s skills of communication and
analysis.
- It
helps schools record their available resources and trains students to
collect information systematically to feed and ease up the analysis
process.
- The
analysis of post-audit information can be used by a network of schools or
by city or state governments to do a comparative evaluation so that best
practices can be shared.
- The
audit equips school managements to skillfully manage their available
resources for optimum utilization and become Green Schools.
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