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Environmental Education at School – How to Manage the Change Process towards a Real Ecological and even Sustainable Behaviour of Schools
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2002
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Two main streams require fundamental change of schools. Most European schools have been managed by the governmental institutions. The head of a school had only the competence for co-ordination, but not for taking decisions. With the general stream of liberalisation schools have to become more autonomous. This is the basis and prerequisite for the second stream, the stream of greening schools.
The Austrian Government decided in 1984 to start with a program to introduce the ecological thinking and education at Austrian schools. This decision based on the findings, that schools are the most important learning areas building up awareness for ecological and later sustainable aspects in the population.
This contribution is based on a large research project of the Austrian Academy of Ecology and Nature in Linz and the University of Linz. The main purpose of the research project was to investigate, how far the above mentioned program was developed and how the change process towards a real ecological and even sustainable behaviour of schools can be managed.
In a first part, the two main streams of fundamental change will be described. The results of the investigation in Austrian schools, shown in the second part, lead to a new concept of organising successful structures and processes at schools. The third part suggests a new structural picture of schools as basis for successful and sustainable processes, shown in the fourth part. The paper will conclude with summarising the lessons learned and a preview of open fields for connecting projects.