Comparative Study of Environmental Education at Home and Abroad

Abstract:

Since 1960s and 1970s, with the rapid economic and social development, the relationship between man and nature become unprecedented strained. In this case, environmental education in the world has been on the rise. The main purpose of environmental education is to cultivate environmental sense of the public. It is an important symbol of human society's advancement, foundation work of environmental protection and hinge of sustainable development from concept to act. Depth study and learn from the successful experience of foreign environmental education, environmental education in China to further promote the development of great significance. The paper briefly relates the historical development of the external and internal environmental education, analyses the problems of the environmental education, and put forward the corresponding development suggestion.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 524-527)
• Pages: 2505-2509
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.524-527.2505
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Hong Zhou, Hong Xia Chen, Zheng Wen Huang
• Keywords: Comparison, Development, Environmental Education, Suggestion

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