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The project is funded by the Scottish Government [1] and is a collaboration between local authorities, Education Scotland and RM Education. The online portal is powered by RM Unify, a service which provides account management and the Launchpad , [ 2 ] an interface which allows users to access applications provided by the Scottish Government ...
Eco-Schools was launched in 1994 in Denmark, Germany, Greece and the United Kingdom with the support of the European Commission. When the Foundation for Environmental Education became global in 2001, countries outside of Europe began joining the Eco-Schools programme as well. South Africa was the first country to do so.
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A climate-friendly school, or eco-school, [1] encourages the education of sustainable developments, especially by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide produced in order to decrease the effects of climate change. [2] The term "climate-friendly school" arose and was promoted by the United Nations' education for sustainable development program ...
The Foundation for Environmental Education was established in 1981 as the Foundation for Environmental Education in Europe (FEEE). However, at its 20th anniversary general assembly, held in Copenhagen in 2001, the organisation decided, because of growing interest from outside Europe, to become more global and dropped "Europe" from its name to become the Foundation for Environmental Education ...
The organisation’s origins lie in the 1960s, with the "Beautiful Scotland in Bloom" campaign run by the Scottish Tourist Board and the Scottish Women's Rural Institute. After this, under the auspices of Keep Britain Tidy, its focus in Scotland included educating young people about the environment through the Eco-Schools programme.
Recently, there have been attempts to integrate critical eco-pedagogy, as defined by Greg Misiaszek [2] with Modern Stoic philosophy to create Stoic eco-pedagogy. [ 3 ] One of ecopedagogy's goals is the realization of culturally relevant forms of knowledge grounded in normative concepts such as sustainability , planetarity (i.e. identifying as ...
Scotland's Evening Times ranked the Eastwood High School seventh in West Scotland in its 2009 rankings. [3] Listed in the Herald Scotland ' top fifty schools in Scotland (2011), with 21% of Eastwood High pupils achieving 5 or more Highers [4] Gained Silver award (June 2010) in the Eco Schools Scotland Award Program [5] Fair Trade School Status 2013