Environmental education at schools and in Teachers’ preparation in czech and slovak Republic – experience and research

Abstract

Environmental education and its effective integration into the teaching process of comprehensive subjects in curriculum documents is one of the priority but common educational aims that are embodied in the National Programme of Education Development (NPED) in the Czech Republic. In the same time it represents an integration element of all taught subjects from the curriculum at Grammar as well as Secondary Schools. One of the modules of the project UNDP (United National Development Programme) entitled „The sustainable development – creation of conditions“ that had been solved in the Czech Republic in 1998-2000 dealt with specific problems of environmental education at Secondary Schools and in teachers’ preparation. In the frame of the above quoted project there was made a comparative analysis of teachers` study curriculum.