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The "whole-school" approach to climate change means that an educational institution encourages action for reducing climate change in every aspect of school life. [6] This includes school governance, teaching content and methodology, campus and facilities management as well as cooperation with partners and the broader communities.
Whole language is a philosophy of reading and a discredited [8] educational method originally developed for teaching literacy in English to young children. The method became a major model for education in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s, [7] despite there being no scientific support for the method's effectiveness. [9]
Holistic education is a movement in education that seeks to engage all aspects of the learner, including mind, body, and spirit. [1] Its philosophy, which is also identified as holistic learning theory, [2] is based on the premise that each person finds identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections to their local community, to the natural world, and to humanitarian values such as ...
A UNESCO diagram visualising a "whole school approach" to climate change Climate change education (CCE) is education that aims to address and develop effective responses to climate change . It helps learners understand the causes and consequences of climate change, prepares them to live with the impacts of climate change and empowers learners ...
The whole schools approach embedded in the Eco-Schools programme emphasizes the importance of an ongoing focus on the issues linked to environmental, climate, and sustainability issues. [9] The programme's methodology consists of Seven Steps [10] [11] that the school needs to adopt: Step 1 Establishment of the Eco-Schools Committee
Proposal 19 discusses the role of a whole school approach to food and drinks provision and encourages the development of key health messages as part of the whole school curriculum. Whilst Proposal 20 once again emphasises the importance of a whole school approach and highlights the role of School Governors in taking forward the initiatives ...
This project of worldwide proportions inspired by the new religious movement called the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University incorporates twelve values (unity, peace, happiness, hope, humility, simplicity, trust, freedom, co-operation, honesty, courage, love), [18] and has formed the basis of the whole-school ethos approach in schools such as West Kidlington Primary School, Kidlington ...
The first Waldorf school opened in 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany. [1] A century later, it has become the largest independent school movement in the world, [2] with more than 1,200 independent schools and nearly 2,000 kindergartens in 75 countries, [3] as well as more than 500 centers for special education in more than 40 countries. [4]