Building on the Millennium Development Goals, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG) were established. Despite the willingness of many educational institutions worldwide to embrace the SDGs, given escalating sustainability challenges, this article questions whether ESDG is desirable as…

Discusses the place and need for environmental education and proposes several items any master plan must consider: (1) statement of needs, (2) presentation of supportive data, (3) determination of goals to be achieved, (4) examination of alternative strategies, and (5) selection of ways to insure and evaluate arrival at the goals. (BL)

Environmental education has not succeeded in advancing beyond where it was ten years ago in developing an environmental education program for the schools of America. In view of developments in such areas as energy, more action is needed. (RE)

Through two surveys of nature and environmental centers throughout the United States, the author compares the centers' expressed goals with the goals of environmental education. These goals were determined by an accepted behavior model that is considered conducive to environmentally responsible behavior. (17 references) (MCO)

Past emphasis in the definitions and goals of environmental education has been on information, motivation and skills. The author contends there is a further need in modern society to which environmental education should address itself and advocates the exploration of humanism in people and their institutions as a fundamental goal. (BT)

Objectives for environmental interpretation projects and evaluation techniques to assess a program's achievement of stated objectives are presented. (JP)

Reviewed are issues identified as critical to the further development of environmental education worldwide. Four levels of goals for curriculum development in environmental education are prescribed. Results of a validity assessment of the goals are presented. (RE)

UNESCO-UNEP Programme aims, goals, and recommendations arising from the International Belgrade Workshop on Environmental Education in 1975 are detailed. Nine problem areas in international environmental education are defined. The need for general education at all levels to produce an environmentally literate world society is emphasized. (BT)

Teachers in 300 randomly selected Florida middle, junior high, and senior high schools were surveyed in an effort to obtain data and determine the status of population education in the Florida schools. This article reports and analyses teacher response to that survey. (BT)

Developments in population education in the United States from 1943 to the present are detailed. Eight different strategies utilized by population education programs are described and a review of research studies in population education is included. (BT)

Presented are the findings of questionnaires mailed to the directors of 160 nature centers which provided environmental education programs for elementary school children in thirty-four states. The figures indicate that specific environmental attitude objectives need to be developed by the staffs of these centers. (BT)

Project ICE is a regional, multidisciplinary, k-12 environmental education program that stresses student involvement. Four major project objectives and twelve unifying concepts for the curriculum are listed. The role of the teacher, project services, and available resources are discussed. Several specific examples illustrate student involvement…

Problems of inplementing and evaluating interdisciplinary environmental education programs are discussed in relation to the elementary school and then to the secondary school. Goals and priorities, as stated by the Office of Education, are presented and several innovative programs at each level are briefly described. (LS)