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Introduction
• Environmental education and awareness is increasingly being promoted as
a tool in managing our environment.
• In the 20th century serious environmental concerns like pollution, climate
change, biodiversity, etc have triggered great concern about the
relationship between humanity and the environment
• In 1978 UNESCO Tbilisi Declaration, mentioned the need for
environmental education. This Declaration Convention defined
environmental education as “ a process of developing a world
population that is aware of and concerned about the total
environment and its associated problems, and which has the
knowledge, skills, attitudes, motivation and commitment to work
individually and collectively towards solution of current problems and
the prevention of new ones”.
Introduction (Continues)
• Education - any act or experience that has a formative effect on the
mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical
sense education is the process by which society deliberately
transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one
generation to another.
– Formal education ( degree purpose)
– Informal education ( enhancement of skills and knowledge for
non degree purposes)
• Outreach - the provision of information or services to groups in
society who might otherwise be neglected, i.e.an outreach program
for people who cannot read
• Awareness: First stage in the process of learning about a new
product, service
Introduction (Continues)
• SABC is the biggest media house in the country with 15 PBS radio
stations and 3 PCBS.
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