Teaching of Environment English 2004

Teaching Of Environment This book covers a range of innovative teaching techniquesand examples aimed at engaging students in the environment learning process. Thebook identifies environmental movements as emerging social phenomenon that hadenormous social and cultural origins but whose patterns of social and culturalorigins had yet to be fully understood. Moreover,given Asia's extremely diverse social, cultural, and political backgrounds, itis believed that the contours and consequences of environmentalism in the regioncould only be fruitfully explored from a comparative perspective. Taking thisangle of enquiry, this book deals with issues concerning teaching of environmentalsciences. The opening chapter presents a brief history of environment educationin higher education and current practices in undergraduate teaching ofenvironment.