When I would tell people that I was going to get my master's degree in environmental education I would usually get asked two questions:
1. What is environmental education?
2. what are you going to do with environmental education?
If I felt up to the task of explaining what EE was and explaining my life goals for the future I would usually start by saying that EE is a very broad field and I can basically do anything I want with my master's. I can work in a small classroom or nature reserve or stand on the sidewalk handing out leaflets. Basically the ultimate goal I want to do is educate people to live in ways where they can take care of our mother. All people have different interests and tastes but we all live on the same planet so we have one comment interest: to value the environment we live in. And if I didn't feel like going into a big discussion with that person I would usually just reply by saying that I was going to save the Earth.
I think that EE is very broad and can be taught in many different ways but one thing that I think is key is to teach people about the environment outside so that way we can all explore what is around us. The human is a very powerful being, so I think it's important to educate people about the things that they do that is slowly destroying the earth. And if people at least have that information then they can decide what choices they what to make. what I have found by reading all those articles is that the curriculum for EE is constantly changing so we just have to be willing to change with it and make new and better improvements.
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