EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A LOOK FROM THE UKRAINE

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EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT A LOOK
FROM THE UKRAINE
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Prof. Dr. med. Lew Gerbilsky

The Ukraine

• President,

NGO GREEN DOCTORS - ISDE Ukraine
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The Ukraine


Dr. Victor Khazan
Vice-President,
NGO GREEN WORLD Friends of the Earth Ukraine
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The Ukraine
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Center of Europe in the Ukraine
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The Ukraine the biggest Europeanzone of the
environmental disaster
Lithuania
Berlin
Heidelberg
Wien
OUR RESEARCHES AREAS
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Our Integrated Model N 1
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Our ENRICO model
Traditional Top-Down model
ASSESSORS
COMMUNICATORS
TAKERS
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NGOs role inENRICO model
Who is able to open those closed channels?
ASSESSORS
TAKERS
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Our Integrated Model N 2
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Our Integral Health Model
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Integral Health Model
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There isnt any Sustainability
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Green Doctors published in 2005 a booklet
Chemical Safety and Male Fertility
Spermatogonia
RISK FACTORS
Sperm
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Chernobyl and radiation are not the main
environmental disasters in the Ukraine
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Green Doctors Brochureagainst chemicals
(pesticides)bad practices in the Ukraine
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DIOXINES Productionin Ukrainian Parks
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Adaptation/Disadaptation Ratio in Ukrainian
Children
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Developmental Abnormalities in Ukrainian
Newborns ()
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How good is health of your children?
Self-assessment research, ()
AGE
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A gap in GNP per capita
POOR COUNTRIES
GAP
RICH COUNTRIES
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Education expenditure as share of GNP (percent)
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GREEN DOCTORS created a project of the National
Conception of Education for Sustainable
Development
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Our Integrated Model N 3
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OUR PEDAGOGICAL MODEL of EDUCATION FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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BrainHalves
Pesticides are dangerous!
Pesticides are NOT dangerous!
ACTION
INFORMATION
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Our Integrated Model N 4
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TAO model
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TAO of Integral Health
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Our research data in 5 Ukrainian Cities
DNIPROPETROVSK
KIEV
CHERKASSY
ODESSA SIMFEROPOL
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In our current quantitative research on
environmental education in Ukraine, a particular
emphasis is given to surveys on the levels
ofinformation motivation volition of
students in relation to environmental education
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More Risk Less Awareness
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Did your secondary school give you good
environmental knowledge ?
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Ukraine, 588 University Students, March 2001
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Environmental Education should be improved
dramatically?
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Environmental Knowledge(USA)
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What is principallywrong with Environmental
Education?
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ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS is running faster
Environmental Crisis
Environmental Education
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• Environmental Education
• both in Western and
• Eastern Europe
• is moving in the right direction
• but much too slowly

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Over the next ten years, I predict, the
mainstream of the environmental movement will
reverse its opinion and activism
... Environmental Heresies Stewart Brand
Technology Review's, May 2005
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European education system as a whole becomes
already disintegrated
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Disintegration of the Environmental Education ...
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... produces disintegrated knowledge
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and disintegrated knowledge is not helpful in
making sustainable decisions
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How Environmental Education and Education for
Sustainable Development could be improved
dramatically?
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Question How to integrate?
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Answer How to integrate
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Integral Health as an Integrating Meta-Value
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Medical Doctors as Consultants of Environmental
Educators
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Integration of Two Worlds of Competencies
Public Education
NGOs

• International NGOs
• National NGOs
• Environmental NGOs
• Medical NGOs

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The role of health promotion and medical doctors
in promoting Sustainable Education in
Europecannot and should not beunderestimated
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Medical Doctors as Environmental Educators
Ill give you NOT a MEDICATION, but an
EDUCATION!
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Our Integrated Model N 5
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Our PICA educational modelPerceptually-Integrated
Conceptual Atlas
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Both New Ukraine and Old Ukraine need Sustainable
Development
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Ukrainian people demand green actions instead of
pink promises
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European Projects of the Sustainable Education
GREEN DOCTORS UKRAINE
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• For more information contact
• Dr. Lew Gerbilsky
• greendoctors_at_ukr.net

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Thank you for attention!