Education needs and trends in Environmental Engineering field with the focuse on Eastern Europe region
Zaporozhets, Iryna (2019)
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019092419211
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21st Century highlighted with the biggest challenge humanity has faced – Climate Change. Decrease in the quality of environment, natural disasters and change of usual climate conditions pursued leaders of governments all around the world to take actions against global warming and direct politics towards sustainable development and environmental friendly lifestyle.
There are many aspects needed to be considered for achieving sustainable development goals and one of such aspect is environmental education. Environmental education just starts its way as a separate discipline and requires many developments and improvements of its curricula.
The aim of this research work is to provide reader with the actual information in environmental education sector, current environmental challenges and trends among population with the focus on the countries of Eastern Europe and particularly on Poland and Estonia. This work provides with the information about how the questionnaire research was done, how the quantitative data was analyzed, gives anew information on trends and interests among students in Poland and Estonia towards environmental education.
In this work research showed that the biggest interest of students lays towards knowledge in sustainable development, waste management, environmental health and knowledge of professional computer programs. It is also very important to notice that population preference towards free education is significantly higher.
In the future it is recommended to carry out more research in this sector with better investigation towards current environmental situation in the target sectors.
There are many aspects needed to be considered for achieving sustainable development goals and one of such aspect is environmental education. Environmental education just starts its way as a separate discipline and requires many developments and improvements of its curricula.
The aim of this research work is to provide reader with the actual information in environmental education sector, current environmental challenges and trends among population with the focus on the countries of Eastern Europe and particularly on Poland and Estonia. This work provides with the information about how the questionnaire research was done, how the quantitative data was analyzed, gives anew information on trends and interests among students in Poland and Estonia towards environmental education.
In this work research showed that the biggest interest of students lays towards knowledge in sustainable development, waste management, environmental health and knowledge of professional computer programs. It is also very important to notice that population preference towards free education is significantly higher.
In the future it is recommended to carry out more research in this sector with better investigation towards current environmental situation in the target sectors.