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What is EE's main shortcoming in schools?Read the answer and worked solution →The main focus of EE is to expose students to what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which trio forms the basis of the EE curriculum?Read the answer and worked solution →The paradigm asks for locale specificity set within what broader context?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the first step in the methodology of science described for EE?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is fieldwork vital in environment study?Read the answer and worked solution →In the BRT Hills amla study, what did the Solliga tribals say mainly influenced regeneration?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the comparative method rely on in complex-systems science?Read the answer and worked solution →Which organisms are suggested for comparing air quality on busy and quiet roads?Read the answer and worked solution →EE pairs locale specificity with what?Read the answer and worked solution →A 1991 Supreme Court order in the M.C. Mehta case said environmental awareness should be taught as what?Read the answer and worked solution →How is EE best accomplished in curriculum?Read the answer and worked solution →In 2004, the Supreme Court appointed which body as nodal agency for its environment education order?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is one of the five elements in the road map for implementing EE?Read the answer and worked solution →At upper primary, EE was not seen as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Who stressed environment-based education in Emile?Read the answer and worked solution →Conservation Education focused mainly on what?Read the answer and worked solution →The Stockholm Declaration of 1972 had what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1975 outcome built on Stockholm and set goals for EE programmes?Read the answer and worked solution →The 1977 Tbilisi conference was the world's first of what kind on EE?Read the answer and worked solution →Where was the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Education held in 2007?Read the answer and worked solution →On what date was the first Earth Day, a national teach-in on environmental problems?Read the answer and worked solution →The "environment as an integrating context" approach uses what as a framework for teaching?Read the answer and worked solution →What do students learn about by setting up a basic composting bin?Read the answer and worked solution →A class tests local stream water quality and counts birds. This activity is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Regular visits to write down observations of plants, weather and seasons describe which activity?Read the answer and worked solution →Building a bug hotel or bird house helps students learn mainly about what?Read the answer and worked solution →School or home gardening in EE teaches which ideas?Read the answer and worked solution →Who wrote Silent Spring, which raised public fear of chemical pesticides?Read the answer and worked solution →Who first defined "Environmental Education" in The Journal of Environmental Education in 1969?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What is EE's main shortcoming in schools?

  1. Too many outdoor field trips
  2. No books at any school stage
  3. Inadequate exposure to students' habitat
  4. Excess use of computers in class
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Correct answer: C. Inadequate exposure to students' habitat

1. Despite many initiatives, the paper finds a basic gap. 2. Students have very inadequate exposure to their habitat and little active learning from it. 3. Activities are often memorised as set material, not pursued openly. _Source: NCERT Position Paper Habitat and Learning, 2.3 Shortcomings_

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The main focus of EE is to expose students to what?

  1. Exam-oriented model answer sets
  2. Illustrations from other lands
  3. Rules of strict school discipline
  4. The real natural and social world
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Correct answer: D. The real natural and social world

1. The objectives of EE start with exposure. 2. Students should meet the real-life world, natural and social, in which they live. 3. They then analyse, evaluate and draw inferences about environmental concerns. _Source: NCERT Position Paper Habitat and Learning, 3.1 Objectives of Environmental Education_

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Which trio forms the basis of the EE curriculum?

  1. About, through, for the environment
  2. Reading, writing and reciting orally
  3. Past, present and future times
  4. Home, school and the local market
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Correct answer: A. About, through, for the environment

1. The paper says the curriculum may be based on three kinds of learning. 2. These are learning about, through and for the environment. 3. The other trios are not EE's framework. _Source: NCERT Position Paper Habitat and Learning, 3.1 Objectives of Environmental Education_

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