Caretakers of the Environment International
A Global Network of Secondary School Teachers and Students
Active in Environmental Education
The Colour of Hope
If the sunshine disappears.
If the green turns into tears
If the peace is built of fears
What shall it be?
If the bird does sing alone,
If the tree turns into stone,
Tell me, where we’re gonna live
In the silence, in devil’s harmony
Where the wind blows a fire melody?
Tell me, where we’re gonna live
There’s the colour of hope.
The Salvation rope,
The green seeds of beauty.
Music and lyrics by
Helder Silvano
/ From The Global Forum Volume 1 number 1. April 1990. /
Mission
What does it take to enable students to see the planet as one interdependent environment? Caretakers of the Environment (CEI) believes this can best occur through having students meet and work together. By organizing annual international conferences, making available a periodical for teachers and students by teachers and students, establishing national branches and organizing national and regional workshops, CEI tries to establish a worldwide network of secondary school teachers and students who are actively concerned about environmental issues and who are willing to do something about these issues through their education and their action-taking. The network intends to be a podium for teachers and students to exchange concerns, ideas, strategies, actions and projects in the field of environmental education.
Goals
To develop a worldwide network of secondary school students and teachers who share
environmental concerns and who face environmental challenges.
To share successful and innovative environmental education programs.
To facilitate joint educational projects that encourage international data exchange and
interdisciplinary activities.
To develop strategies which enable delegates to act as ambassadors for CEI in their own country.
To promote environmental awareness and to develop national EE-networks.
To encourage the building of trust, friendship and cooperation among people of different
cultural background
The Global Forum for Environmental Education
The Global Forum for Environmental Education is the official periodical that has been created to support the network. Now in its third volume, The Forum provides a medium for teachers, students and other people interested in EE to write about their own ideas and experiences. Participants of the international conferences automatically receive The Forum --which appears two times a year-- upon paying their registration fee, but anybody who is interested in environmental education can subscribe to the periodical. The editorial staff consists of several secondary school teachers comple-mented with members of the international board of CEI.
List of the 25 Conferences
Every year CEI organizes an international conference on environmental education for secondary schools. The national CEI branch in charge of the conference selects the conference theme, solicits the financial support for the conference and for the participants with financial hardship, and puts together the program in accordance with the philosophy of CEI. Hence, the program puts emphasis on hands-on activities and firsthand experiences that can be taken back to the classroom. Participants are selected on their past and current achievements in environmental education (EE). Each participating school is asked to exhibit their most recent EE-project at the conference.
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