Our project goal was to assess the effectiveness of environmental education efforts in developing secondary school students into critical thinkers with an intimate relationship with their environment. Through interactions with environmental educators, we determined the state of environmental education, and learned the challenges that are preventing it from being successful. We helped EduVentures, a local NGO, field-test a new initiative that will take this education to rural areas, where it is typically underemphasized. Our recommendations to EduVentures and the environmental education community as a whole, aim to help Namibia’s students become a more environmentally responsible generation as the country continues to develop.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Gutierrez, Roman A.
• Sevigny, Catherine M.
• Martel, Nathan T.
• Hanna, Christopher D.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050814-045435

Advisor

• Belz, Melissa
• Hersh, Robert

Year

• 2014

Center

• Windhoek, Namibia Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• EduVentures

Date created

• 2014-05-08

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-050814-045435

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2024-02-05