Review on School Based Environmental Education Club on Student and General Environment

Abstract

Environmental clubs play an important role in creating environmental awareness amongst the future generation. Environmental clubs performs activities to save the environment, like planting trees, organizing poster competitions on various environmental issues and increase awareness about increasing pollution impact on environment. Environmental clubs is a platform on which knowledge about environment is gained. They offer programs and activities to encourage others to reduce pollution, plant trees, and more. Environmental club is a voluntary group which promotes the participation of students in learning about, and improving their environment. Therefore, this paper is sets out to review the impact of school based environmental club on student and environment in general. The findings of those reports related to the selected topic and objectives is organized from student and environmental attribute perspectives from different published and un published materials found. The review result concluded as it is a wonderful opportunity to create awareness, build attitudes and help students take up activities in real world, in a way in which the constraints of the classroom and curriculum will not allow. An Environmental clubs can thus help to extend boundaries and scope of the formal educational system encouraging creativity, and improving students for constructive action. Impart knowledge to help individuals and social groups gain a variety of experiences in and acquire a basic understanding of, the environment and its associated problems. Build attitudes to help individuals and social groups acquire a set of values and feelings of concern for environment, and the motivation for actively participating in environmental improvement and protection. Teach skills to help individuals and social groups for identify and solve environmental problems and lead the students towards action to participate in appropriate action to help solve these problems and avoid future problems.

Keywords:environmental club, environment, Environmental education, impact, student

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-10-03

Publication date: April 30^th 2022