Summary: Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence comprises a set of recommendations for developing and administering high quality nonformal environmental education programs.
Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for
Excellence comprises a set of recommendations for developing and
administering high quality nonformal environmental education programs. These
recommendations provide a tool that can be used to ensure a firm foundation for
new programs or to trigger improvements in existing ones. The overall goal of
these guidelines is to facilitate a superior educational process leading to the
environmental quality that people desire. This overall goal is shared with the
other guidelines produced by the North American Association for Environmental
Education's National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education.
The term "environmental education program" is used in these guidelines to
mean an integrated sequence of planned educational experiences and materials
intended to reach a particular set of objectives. Programs, taken together, are
the methods by which an organization's education goals are accomplished.
Programs can be small or large and can range from short-term, one-time events to
long-term, community capacity-building efforts.
Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence
points out six key
characteristics of high quality nonformal environmental education programs.
For each characteristic, guidelines are listed for nonformal program developers
or educators to consider.
Nonformal Guidelines
