International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Editors: A/Prof John Lidstone, Queensland University of Technology and Prof Joseph P. Stoltman, Western Michigan University
Book Review Editor: Dr Sarah Witham Bednarz, Texas A & M University
Editorial Assistant: Donna Bennett, Australia
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Volume: 10 Number: 4 Page: 429–444
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Awareness of Vietnamese Primary Schoolteachers on Environmental Education
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Nguyen Thi Than
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This paper focuses on a survey of primary schoolteachers with the targets of evaluating their awareness on environmental problems, protection and education, and studying their role as teachers and their
capacities to meet the requirements of environmental education. Teaching environmental education requires from teachers not only a deep and thorough awareness of environmental problems, protection and education
but also a creative thinking power and the capacity to apply theoretical knowledge in general to a concrete local environment. The results of the survey show that Vietnamese primary schoolteachers lack
both of the required qualities. In this regard, the following suggestions are proposed: (1) to place as high priority the creative thinking power and research abilities in the teachers' training objectives;
(2) to organise courses on environmental problems, protection and education for in-service teachers; (3) to establish programmes and prepare learning materials well suited in each locality.
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