English formal education courses in environmental education.doc

English formal education courses in environmental education “Environmental education” in this term in 1920 the Scottish botanist Patrick Geddes (1854-1933) for the first time, “environment” and “education” after the use of two words appear side by side. The international community was held in Paris in 1948, the UN General Assembly on the first official to use it. Britain is the world’s environmental education been conducted in the more successful a representative one of the countries. Britain is the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, London smog event is the world’s famous events of the eight public nuisance. London is a city with 2,000 years of history, in the open valley of the River Thames downstream. In December 1952 coincided with the winter season, the temperature is low, moist air pressure in London over the tens of thousands of chimneys in the air and shoot out a lot of smoke, dust particles, 10 times the normal concentration of sulfur dioxide concentration of the usual six-fold , smoke in the ferric oxide to sulfur dioxide oxidation, producing sulfuric acid foam, smoke and dust condensed to form in the mist. 4 days in the city killed more than 4,000 people, after two months, have another 8,000 people were killed. The subsequent 1957 and 1962 London smog event occurred, after a comparison of smoke occurred only to identify the reasons for the Government and the community on environmental issues very seriously. Therefore, the United Kingdom to carry out environmental education in the world earlier in the world. 1, the United Kingdom started with the development of environmental education “Environmental education” in the UK for the first time began to use and received attention in 1965, marked the beginning the British higher education field of study related to environmental education research, a meeting was held at the University Kyle, the content is to examine the rural environmental protection and related educational issues, the meet