The Greek education System, the Environmental

Education in Greece and the EEC of Stylida-

Stylida-Central
Greece.

Papageorgiou Marina
Geologist-Vice Director,of Environmental Educatiion Center of
Geologist-
Stylida, coordinator of the National thematic network ´Climate
changes-
changes -extreme weather phenomenaµ
 Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning
and Religious Affairs

Education Directorates in Prefectures

supervise schools, coordination,
school buildings and equipment

School Advisors
Pedagogical guidance Head teachers

Teachers· councils
 Education levels

Primary education Kindergarten

6-12 4-6 years old
years old

mainstream Special needs

All-
All-day
mainstream All-
All-day
Special needs
 SECONDARY EDUCATION

High school-
school- LYCEUM
GYMNASIUM
12-
12-15 years old
15-
15-18 years old

TECHNOLOGICAL
EDUCATION
General Special
needs

Special activities,
as athletics, music
 HIGHER EDUCATION

Universities Technological Institutes

18+

LIFELONG LEARNING
EDUCATION
 Environmental
Education (all levels, all ages)

Although the Greek Education system is characterized by a high

centralization and a traditional didactic system, the Environmental
education ««use «
The "learning by research....
Through this method, pupils have the opportunity to participate in
the selection, planning, implementation and evaluation of the
project.

Moreover, they should

develop initiatives as
individuals and as
members of a team"
(Ministry of Education
ı/92/277/20.3.91).
 The innovation«

A bottom up innovation, innovative pedagogical approach,

giving Ĵ prospect to change the pedagogical system.

the orientation«

Education for
Sustainability,
Sociopolitical,
alternative, critical
approaches,
collective claims and
collaborative
relations.
 Supporting Environmental Education.

Offices of Environmental Education in all Educational

Directorates. One or two teachers co-co-ordinate the
environmental projects of schools in their area.

The school teams

use to visit one or
two environmental
education center
per year«..
 65 Environmental
Education centers in Greece

ŠUrban or peripheral. Most of them are peripheral,

so children with their teachers, go to an
environmental trip far away from their cities, usually
in a place with nice nature.
ŠDaily for urban EEC, two / three or four days
educational programs for pupils and students.
A team usually 30-
30-40 persons with their teachers,
visit the EEC . At first, they attend an
environmental program. After that, in small teams,
they play some environmental games ,they use
stereoscopes, microscopes etc and some other
activities. At the end, they go to a fieldwork.
Finally they evaluate the activities.
ŠTeachers· training in Environmental Education. Seminars,
conferences, fieldworks etc.
Š Production of educational material. We use this material to
our activities.
ŠCo
Co-
-ordination of schools networks. We have many
national networks and a next step is, European network.
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 Our projects are:

• Geomythology
• Olive, Gods· gift
• Wetlands
• Maliakos Gulf : our sea full of life
• Climate changes and extreme weather phenomena
• Forests and Floods«
 The Environmental Education Center of Stylida is the
coordinator of School Networks:
´Geomythologyµ

´Climate changes and weather extreme phenomenaµ

´Students with special needs and Environmental
Educationµ
 GEOENVIRONMENTAL AND
GEOENVIRONMENTAL
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 EVERYTHING IS CHANGING«

The Environmental Education Centre (EEC) of Stylida is the founder and

co-
co -ordinator of the National Thematic Network
¶Climate Changes ²Extreme Weather Conditionsµ since 2008.
 National Thematic Network:
Climate Change-
Change- Extreme Weather Conditions

The aims of the network are to enable students to

understand :
•notions such as weather, climate, climate change and extreme
weather conditions and how they affect human activities.
•Climate change that occurred in the past by natural causes
(glacial periods).
•Natural and human-
human-made climate change observed today.
•the impact of climate change on the environment (desertification,
melting of glaciers, rise of sea level, floods, reduction of bio-
bio-
diversity, environmental immigration, etc).
• Our responsibility concerning climate change.
Operation ²Actions of the Network
During the three school years of its operation, 86 schools have
taken part in it, 2756 students and 253 teachers. During these
two years , 1100 students of both primary and secondary education
and 90 teachers visited the centre and attended the Climate
Change program.
In January 28 2011, four members of the Secretariat
of the UNFCCC visited Athens in order to ensure that the
Convention is implemented and to be notified of any further
developments, changes in the course of action or problems
encountered.
The representatives of the Ministry of Education, Lifelong
Learning and Religious Affairs
Affairs,, presented the program of action
for the Decade for Education for Sustainable Development aiming
at sensitizing students and cultivating attitudes that characterize
active citizens as well as promoting public awareness through the
opening of school to society in compliance with the UNESCO goals
and in order to advance the implementation of the Article 6 of the
Convention.
Among others, special emphasis was laid on the
National Thematic Network of Stylida ¶Climate Change
²Extreme Weather Conditions·.
 We hope that using, not the wings of Pegasus, but
our work in Environmental Education we will try for a
better and sustainable environment
Environmental Education
Center of Stylida
Telephone:
Telephone:+30 22380 23121
FAX: +30 22380 23137
E-MAIL:
MAIL kpestypa@otenet.gr,
kpestyl@sch.gr
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4)Geomythological association