Educational strategies to promote environmental literacy among children in the school environment

Received: 13/03/2025 - Accepted: 03/12/2025 - Published: 30/06/2026

Abstract

Our intervention aims to introduce the importance and role of environmental education in promoting positive environmental behavior in children from the earliest stages of life, at the school level. It makes the child realize that nature or his/her surroundings outside urban areas are an integral part of his/her life space. It makes the child aware that nature or his surroundings outside the urban area are an integral part of his life space, as humans are cosmically intertwined (connectivity cosmic) with all the environmental elements surrounding them, and interact with them directly, as he is intertwined with all the food produced by the soil, water, air, plants and trees and their fruits, animals and their meat, stones, smells, colors, sounds, light, darkness, heat, cold and all the various climatic phenomena during the four seasons. It affects his health and mood, both positively and negatively. It determines his health in all its physical and psychological dimensions and the extent of his well-being in life. Therefore, we will show how environmental education curricula contribute to the development of the child's environmental awareness to realize that the house he lives in goes beyond the concept of apartment, building, neighborhood, and concrete structures to include all the sensory, physical, physical and aesthetic elements of the nature in which he lives. We will also show how environmental education contributes to the development of children's thinking in understanding the dangers of pollution on their physical and mental health and their existence as living beings, in addition to the role of environmental education in promoting the emotional development of children through the development of an aesthetic and moral sense.