What is Cultural & Environmental Education?
Significant challenges are emerging in the 21st Century which threaten childhood inner development, social identification, non-violent communication and global citizenship. Current administrative changes in U.S. public school policy in recent years have deterred teachers from fostering many skills children needed for life preparation including multi-cultural awareness, interpersonal development, personal health and well-being. More and more parents, teachers and child caregivers are becoming increasingly aware of the negative impact this lack of training has had on our youth. Thus, an opportunity exists to offer programs and services to meet these needs directly to teachers, parents and caregivers. The most efficient way to deliver those programs and services is through the Internet.
~Aimee Miller, Founder & Director, ICEE
The Institute for Culture and Environmental Education (ICEE), addresses global issues at their core. We encourage students to develop their critical thinking skills and to envision solutions to systems that perpetuate discrimination, injustice and degradation to the environment. This is accomplished through an action-based Culture and Environmental Education, a comprehensive field of study and approach to teaching that draws connections between environmental issues, cultural issues, peace and non-violence, and community building and sustainability. It explores how we might reunite the world by understanding how culture and the environment play an integral role in tolerance, peace, and prosperity for the planet.
This program invites you to turn your passion into creative solutions, to implement these solutions in your community, and gain skills and tools that will allow you to teach the children of our future so that their life choices can help improve the world. Culture and Environmental Education is a promising and gratifying method of achieving sustainability, tolerance, and peace.
You’ll learn how to teach about the issues, develop curriculum and foster values and beliefs in children that will allow a brighter future.
The knowledge base of cultural and environmental education is drawn from the field of sustainability, cultural studies and peace studies. The courses will teach you presentation and implementation skills as well as knowledge of issues.