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Environmental Education is a life-long process that
encourages people to explore, raise questions, investigate
issues, and seek solutions regarding environmental and
related social problems (North American Association for
Environmental Education, 1986).
The Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the
Environment is working with Oman’s Ministry of Education to
develop environmental education within the school system at
regional and national levels. In October 2001 the Ministry
of Education hosted a workshop to develop an environmental
education programme for the national school curriculum of
Basic Education (grade 1 to 10). This workshop was
facilitated by the World Wide Fund for Nature International
and had the following objectives:
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Learn about the Basic Education curriculum
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Learn about environmental education
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Define the future Environmental Education Programme's goal
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Identify skills to be acquired during Basic Education
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Distribute these skills within the curriculum
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Learn about, and identify environmental issues
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Tentatively distribute these issues in the curriculum
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Propose activities to be developed during the programme's
implementation and prioritise
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Learn about monitoring and evaluation, in relation to the
proposed activities
The workshop was well attended by representatives from many
sectors and the workshop report is currently being developed
into an Environmental Education Programme for consideration
for funding and implementation.
In the Central Region of Oman staff of the Arabian Oryx
project are working with Ministry of Education staff to
implement local initiatives such as a programme of visits to
the Arabian Oryx Project headquarters at Jaaluni by school
children.
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