The level of environmental awareness among students to fulfill the aspiration of National Philosophy of Education.
The major purpose of this paper is to investigate the philosophy of environmental education in Malaysian school system. The major contribution of this paper would be to help the respective agencies in the government in building up the environmental awareness among people starting from schools....
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| Language: | English English |
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EuroJournals Publishing
2009
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17238/1/1450-223X.pdf |
| Summary: | The major purpose of this paper is to investigate the philosophy of environmental
education in Malaysian school system. The major contribution of this paper would be to
help the respective agencies in the government in building up the environmental awareness
among people starting from schools. It is part of the National Philosophy of Education to
state the importance of this aspect. This paper embarks on the following objectives and
expectations: (1) to identify the philosophy of environmental education in Malaysian
school system from the perspective of the school management; (2) to determine the
characteristics among schools members that are likely to influence the environmental
awareness, (3) to determine the effectiveness of school-based environmental awareness
programmes in order to enhance self-regulated strategies to school members; (4) to
discover school members' attitudes towards the extensive environmental awareness
programmes introduced by the respective authorities; and (5) to develop an environmental
awareness suggestions. All these approaches will assist us in analyzing how far they impact
on ‘the betterment of the personal well-being, family, society and the nation, as stated in
the National Philosophy of Education by referring to the importance of having
environmental awareness. |
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