JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL POLICY (JHSP )
E-ISSN 2545-5729
P-ISSN 2695 2416
VOL. 9 NO. 3 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56201/jhsp.v9.no3.2023.pg7.17
Multidisciplinary Nature of Environmental Problems: Critical
Implications for Environmental Education
FRANCIS Tete, PhD, Sylvanus P. Idiong, PhD, Asukwo Sunday Nseabasi, PhD
Abstract
Science courses have traditionally been discipline-centred, with little attention paid to the way
in which the natural sciences are influenced by sociology, economics and politics.
Understanding these influences is essential for developing and implementing long-term
solutions to environmental problems. This paper goes into the question of the roots of the
environmental crisis, and thereof advances prospects for environmental education. It is an
inquiry into the philosophical background to environmental education. It questions the
philosophical framework of modern science that produces the environmental crisis and
prospects for a framework for environmental education cultivated from the perspective of
multidisciplinarity. The paper explores the implications of multidisciplinary nature of
environmental research for teacher training review, curriculum renewal, teaching methods
and evaluation in environmental education. The paper concludes that these prospects for
environmental education constitute
the crucial
environmental change of behaviour on which the survival of human civilization as we know it
today stands precariously.
keywords: Environmental problems; Environmental crisis; Environmental change;
Environmental issues; Environmental Education
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