| dc.description.abstract | The study investigated environmental education in Wesley College of Education in the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA). It covers the main curricular content of environmental education in Wesley College of Education (WCE), the relevance and uniqueness of the environmental education then, to find out the extent to which environmental education is emphasized in the college. Document review was carried out on the curriculum that, the college, junior high schools and primary school used. It entails the environmental education in schools in Ghana. It demonstrates the dripping effect of environmental education to the citizenry and the country at large. Philosophical foundation was laid to inform the methodological approaches. It used qualitative method and adopted purposively sampling approach to select the participants. Both primary and secondary sources of data were used. The respondents were student teachers and teachers from WCE. The study was guided by three theories that, is critical pedagogy theory, the theory of environmental knowledge and attitude, nature and environmental knowledge and the concept of curriculum. The main findings of the study reviewed that, environmental education in Ghana is an integrated study which, comprised social studies, general science, geography and many more. The junior high and primary school curriculum showed significant knowledge of environmental education. The study revealed that different teaching approaches are applied in the teaching process of environmental education in the college. The tutors use project methods, presentation methods, and demonstrative methods in the teaching approach. These methods promote the understanding of the course. Students are adequately equipped with resources to facilitate knowledge acquisition. The ultimate aims and significance of the environmental education is to impart knowledge of the green environment to the society. | en_US |
