Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Repetition, listening, talking, thinking, analysing facts and presenting make the students more understanding. With basic concept and examples and mini exercises will make the students understanding better. We must throw away all old habits that listening in lectures, take notes and wait for examinations.

non-stop environmental education activities by Malaysian Nature Society at Kuala selangor nature park (KSNP) if sponsored by companies.

Pesta Wau SKSS: the first one we did for SKSS where students and parents involve. Now we invite more schools near Subang Jaya. But many kites were basic and not much showing our culture. may be next year we will try to organise more local wau rather imported plastic kites. this part of understanding culture in skss.


 understanding local culture: if we do not doing it now, young generation will miss it and forget our local culture. if you are at our skss pesta wau, you will see the gap of understanding culture between father, mother and children and between parents. some the grand father helping the granddaughters.

Sometimes our thinking very narrow and microscopic. If we already made decision to protect and conserve the area, we have to accept and continue the decision. Not as what happened to Templer Park area. May be we can redevelop the forest but just for decoration no more natural.

 

We may have many activities on the environmental education. Further more the activities were done by the NGOs and volunteers. Many are doing similar activities and approaches. They are very exited doing it with clear mission to protect and conserve nature. But no tools to assess the achievement. Therefore the problems continues.

Hot debate on Environmental Education (EE) in Sandakan recently. About 150 EE activists gathered to review past activities and discuss on the future approaches including the structure, modules, implementation, financial and other related issues. Malaysian Nature Society still champion in this EE.

How Malaysia can develop as what the Prime Minister want (including Tun Mahathir's Vision) if our scientist think small and act micro. Ministry involve (MOSTI) thinking is lower than managing football club in Malaysia. We have little number of experts and we continuously depending old microscopic thinking of scientist to assess our futuristic proposal. We are behind because of these two groups of people. Secretariat at MOSTI and "little experts".


Monday, September 24, 2012

Environmental Education activities is a continuous programmes and life long processes. We can start from preschool to retired person. Of course in different modules and activities. We need more volunteers to make public understand about the environmental issues and how to solve them.


Environmental education (EE) is a learning process in which the individual acquires skills, knowledge, awareness and values for promoting environmental conservation and sustainable environmental management. EE is, therefore, considered to be an important element in planning, procedure and actions.