12 PRINCIPLES

1.Consider the environment in it's totality, natural and social.

2. A continuous, lifelong process.

3. Interdisciplinary in approach.

4. Examine major environmental issues from local, national, regional and international viewpoints.

5. Focus on current and potential environmental situations while taking into account the historical perspective.

6. Promote the value and necessity of local, national and international co-operation in preventing and solving environmental problems.

7. Explicitly consider environmental aspects in planning development and growth.

8. Enable learners to have a role in planning their learning experiences and provide opportunities for making decisions and accepting consequences.

9. Relate environmental sensitivity, knowledge, problem solving skills and values clarification to early age with special emphasis on sensitivity to the learner's community in early years.

10. Help learners to discover the symptoms and real causes of environmental problems.

11. Emphasize the complexity of environmental problems and thus the need to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills.

12. Use a variety of educational strategies with due stress on practical activities and problem solving.