The Institute for Culture and Environmental Education (ICEE) addresses global issues at their core. We encourage educators 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 applied learning in 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 educators to turn their passion into creative solutions, to implement these solutions in their classrooms and community, and gain skills and tools that will allow them 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.
Educators learn how to teach about the issues, develop curriculum, and foster values and beliefs in children that will allow a brighter future. Our programs include applied learning and target underprivileged youth.
At ICEE we pride ourselves in offering students the opportunity to apply the knowledge they gain in their distance learning into their local communities & classrooms, their country and around the world.
Each course has a 5 hour field study component. The educator is required to apply learning and curriculum development in the classroom or in the community directly to underprivileged and/or at risk youth. ICEE’s study abroad program allows students the opportunity to apply their teaching skills to disadvantaged children around the world.
The knowledge base of cultural and environmental education is drawn from the field of sustainability, cultural studies and peace studies. The courses teach presentation and implementation skills as well as knowledge of issues.