Research on situation of environmental education for primary students in rural areas of Hau Giang province

Abstract

The research: “Situation of environment education activities for primary schools in rural areas of Hau Giang province” was carried out from May 2016 to June 2017 to study the situation of education activities on environment in primary schools then to propose solutions to help improve the impact of these activities. The research focuses on education managers, teachers and students’ parents then proposes help improve the impact of these activities for primary schools. Results show that, most of teachers and students’ parents agree that environment education activities for primary students have positive impacts on raising students’ awareness on environment. Besides, these activites receive huge support from schools’ Board of Directors including providing related teaching materials, budget and delegating teachers to join these activities. However, one of the major issues is there’s not enough budget invested in two most popular activities which are adding environment education content in science subjects and organizing extra-curricular activities. The research also proposes some solutions to enhance the quality of the activities. These solutions are enhancing the engagement of education government bodies, more budget for the activities.