The biological framework of environmental education

The need for environmental education is now widely recognized and a great variety of teaching programmes and projects exists at all levels of education. It is suggested, however, that particularly for secondary education there is still a need for a clearer definition of a conceptual framework, to give environmental education a more recognizable identity. Biological aspects of man's relationship with his environment are reviewed, and areas of stress identified, ecological, physiological, and behavioural, which environmental education may help to counteract. Environmental education is considered to be more concerned with observation, identification of relationships, evaluation, and appropriate forms of action, than with the assembly of theoretical knowledge from contributory subject areas.