Educational Principles
The Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) has established eight Educational Principles to guide environmental education and Education for Sustainable Development across its programmes.
These principles provide a common framework for designing educational activities that encourage participation, critical thinking, collaboration and action. FEE is committed to applying and promoting these principles throughout its programmes.
Within Blue Flag, these principles support the development and delivery of environmental education activities across beaches, marinas and tourism boats, helping connect environmental information with participation, learning and responsible action.
1) Ensure that participants are engaged in the learning and teaching process.
2) Empower participants to make informed decisions and take action on real-life sustainability issues.
3. Encourage participants to work together actively and involve their communities in collaborative solutions.
4) Support participants to examine their assumptions, knowledge and experiences in order to develop critical thinking and openness to change.
5) Encourage participants to recognise cultural practices as an integral part of sustainability issues.
6) Encourage participants to share inspirational stories of their achievements, failures and values, learn from them and support each other.
7) Continuously explore, test and share innovative approaches, methodologies and techniques.
8) Make continuous improvement through monitoring and evaluation central to our programmes.
Watch the video below to learn more about FEE's Educational Principles and how they guide our approach to environmental education.