المنحنى العقائدي للتربية البيئية

Abstract EN

It has become apparent that the pattern of the relationship between man and the environment needs to be altered in a way that necessitates the search for a new philosophical foundation for Environmental Education.

On the doctrinal level, the study points out that all religious beliefs have stressed the need for environmental ethics and have thus provided doctrinal and philosophical parameters within which man’s relationship with his environment is to be channeled.

This is the case through out pre- industrial revolution, the emergence of material culture led to the dissipation and even obliteration of a large portion of this religious ethics, all in the name of progress, urbanization and development.

This study had outlined the consequences of an absent solid philosophical foundation to direct Environmental Education.

This has thus suffered from uncertainty as a result of being linked with environmental problems and dominated by utilitarianism.

This study touched on some of the attempts to break this deadlock and salvage Environmental Education.

The study concludes with proposing three basic points of departure qualified to inform a contemporary environmental philosophy.

The first of these elements subsumes a comprehensive view of environment in all its aspects including man.

The level of knowledge and awareness is determined by this view to ensure comprehensiveness and value - relatedness.

The second basic element caters to the doctrinal orientation.

These gives man the right to use environmental resources in his capacity as the custodian of these resources on this earth.

The third element or point of departure, finally, has to do with moral perspective.

Here, it is assumed that man must be guided by environmental ethics enshrined in the religious texts and the traditions of peoples.

Such ethics ensures that a balance is struck between the environment and the activities of man.

The study argues that the moral concept developed in Islam could be taken as the main elements suitable for such an orientation.

The study puts before decision-makers a number of recommendations.

These revolve around the following: Environmental Education is an integral part of the activities of man.

This type of education is on- going, transcending the regulation of time and place.

The need for depth and universality in dealing with the causes of the environmental crisis.

The need to utilize the moral systems of different societies, cultures and religions, in order to establish a global moral basis for one global family in one globle home