Deirdre Clune
Question:149 Ms Clune asked the Minister for Education and Science the action, if any, taken to secure the implementation of the 1994 interdepartmental working group report on Environmental Awareness. [13875/98]
Written Answers. - Environmental Awareness.
This working group was set up to determine how schools could best promote an appreciation of environmental matters. The group produced a report which examined the position of environmental education at primary, second and third level in this country, and also looked at approaches to environmental education in a number of other European countries.
Copies of this report were made available to all schools during 1994. School authorities were invited to examine the report with a view to implementing the recommendations which identify action which can be taken at the level of each individual school.
In the context of the review of the primary curriculum currently taking place, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment was asked to examine those recommendations which would be relevant to primary level.
"Environmental care" is one of the four strands which, along with geography, history and science, will constitute social, environmental and scientific education, SESE, in the revised curriculum which will be introduced into primary schools on a phased basis in the near future.