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1. KNOWLEDGE AUGMENTATION:
a. The participants got enlightened with the basic concepts on environment as a
whole, the parameters and indicators thereof and recent trend in conservation
aspects nationally and internationally.
b. The participants understood the need and urgency of introducing environment
education in schools in congruence with the global movement on conservation of
environment and nature.
c. They understood that to impart environment education to the school students it is
not imperative to have subject experts and that the conservation works do not
necessarily require high technology input.
d. The participants are infused with the knowledge on methodologies to be adopted
to impart environment education by optimisation and affective use of local
knowledge and capacity.
2. INFLUENCE ON MINDSET:
a. The symposium eliminated many a wrong notions regarding environment and
allied issues from the minds of the participating teachers.
b. The brainstorming and the knowledge received in the symposium initiated a
change in the mindset of the participants on the whole concept of environment.
c. The symposium acted as a catalyst to spearhead the thought process of the
participants towards imparting Environment Education to the school students in a
positive way.
3. INSPIRATION TO ACT:
a. The symposium left the participants with a passion to act on their own and
develop further in the field of environment education and knowledge base.
b. Charged by the deliberations on the urgency of educating students in Environment
related issues the participants expressed their willingness to start the programme
in their respective schools as soon as possible.
c. The participants showed keen interest in establishing both horizontal and vertical
linkage with other institutions for information and knowledge sharing regarding
environment education.
It can therefore, be concluded that the impact and outcome of the symposium was affirmative
and result oriented.
Based on this experience PVI is looking forward to work more in this field with renewed
vigour.
The environment education programmes for school students will be started under supervision of
PVI, Nagaon who will also shoulder the responsibility of monitoring the activity and progress of
the programmes in the respective schools in cooperation with Centre for Environment Education
(CEE), Assam Science Technology & Environment Council (ASTEC) and arrange for further
inputs as and when required.