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Teacher Training Workshops

ESG has conducted Experiential Workshops aimed at helping teachers understand some of the major environmental and social issues of our times and develop teaching methods and techniques to address them. The broad methodological approach to learning in these workshops is through lectures from leading experts, participant presentations, field visits and case studies relating to issues of concern.

Exploring Environmental Education beyond the Classroom

ESG, in collaboration with Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, hosted a teacher's workshop focused on effective methods for teaching environmental education from July 9-11, 2009. Read more.

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As climate change emerges as the greatest environmental challenge for the world, basic environmental education becomes a major imperative for transforming our collective attitudes for progressive action. The urgent need for action locally and globally cannot be made possible unless we have a citizenry that is aware and willing to positively respond to actions demanded.

Keeping this emergent need in view, ESG has conducted Experiential Workshops aimed at helping teachers understand some major environmental and social issues of our times and develop teaching methods and techniques to address them. The workshop focuses on how such learning will apply to appreciating issues of water, waste and land. The broad methodological approach to learning in the workshop is through lectures from leading experts, participant presentations, field visits and case studies relating to issues of concern.

The workshops are designed based on themes and has provided teachers with an introduction to environmental science that will encourage and enable them to pursue learning about our planet with their students, guide teachers through a learner-centered experience in which they can develop an understanding of their immediate environment; share this understanding with other staff and students; and also help connect teachers with a variety of scientists, educationists and environmental and social activists as a process of evolving an environmental science learning community. This, we believe, will help us in the process of evolving into environmentally informed and responsible future citizens.

ESG is an independent not-for-profit organisation that promotes the cause of environmental and social justice through research, documentation, advocacy, training and campaign support. We aim to support the rights of local communities and voiceless ecosystems in a responsible, progressive manner that keeps contextual complexities in mind.

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For more information on ESG's educational programs, write to Bhargavi at ESG

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