Smart Schools Initiative in Enugu State: Using Language as a Linguistic Tool for Eco-Restoration and Sustainability.

OSSAI, Rosemary N. and ENE, Felicia Nnenna and Ogbonne, Torty and Ene, Martina (2024) Smart Schools Initiative in Enugu State: Using Language as a Linguistic Tool for Eco-Restoration and Sustainability. Godfrey Okoye University International Journal of Education, 3 (3). pp. 1-19.

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Abstract

Environmental Education raises one’s awareness of the environment and provides the necessary skills to ensure its sustenance. The environment is vital for its innumerable values that concern the enjoyment and the satisfaction man derives from the natural world. But the global environment is in a precarious state and this has been much in focus in recent times. More than 50 percent of the Sustainable Development Goal targets lack sufficient progress and about 30 percent have been stalled or reversed. Based on this argument, this theoretical paper reviewed the 125 page book on Environmental Education and Maintenance Culture at the Grassroots. The book successfully blends environmental themes such as climate change, sustainable development, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and biodiversity with English language teaching and learning organized into seven sections. It provides opportunities to discuss environmental issues and at the same time providing students with the right context for language skills development. The last section on aesthetics and culture of maintenance provides young people opportunities to acquire, practice and imbibe a lifelong culture of maintenance from an early stage. It fosters maintenance skills acquisition at home, and contains community base d learning activities and field trips. The study affirms that the book has a great potential in contributing towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal targets. It however recommends updating some passages and to digitize the book in line with the 260 BASIC SMART Schools in Enugu State.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Faculty of Law > Faculty of Management and Social Sciences > Faculty of Education
Depositing User: mrs chioma hannah
Date Deposited: 05 May 2025 08:47
Last Modified: 05 May 2025 08:47
URI: http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/4471

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