Ecological Tales for Environment Education

[Muriel kakani]

Environment education is a lifelong process with the objective of inculcating among children a sense of respect and responsibility towards the environment. This education has to start as early as possible.

If we want children to develop love and concern for the environment, we need to invigorate ecology with emotions because only emotions that affect the heart can bring a change of attitudes. One of the best ways to create these attachments and instill ecological values and ethics is to tell stories that impart pro-environmental emotions.

Here are 5 great reasons to use storytelling:

Impart knowledge while entertaining and involving the listener.

Give children a chance to learn in an interesting way about the world around them.

Introduce kids to new concepts.

Enliven any topic and add depth to a lesson.

Give an opportunity for emotional transformation as every story is designed to provide a moral message.

Here are 5 great reasons to use eco-storytelling:

Promote an understanding of the relationship between man and the environment.

Develop awareness and the knowledge necessary for children to become stewards of the earth.

Promote environmental education in school and community.

Bring environmental education to life.

Encourage children to become role models for environmental change.

Here are 5 great reasons to use the Ecological Tales from India series:

# Help children reconnect with Indian traditions: ecology is about going local, eating local grains, planting local fruit trees, dressing with local fabrics, using local resources…

# Revive Indian traditional knowledge systems: India is one of the last big repositories of ecological traditions and has plenty of local skills and expertise in the fields of medicine, water harvesting, forest management, agriculture, animal care, textile, architecture… to share with the world.

# Experience the wisdom of India's traditional people who have always lived in harmony with nature.

# Discover India's biodiversity: wildlife, endemic plants, natural forests…

# Introduce environment education with a new and positive approach: there is more to environment education than tragic apocalyptic figures that leave kids helpless.

The range of titles you will find in the Ecological Tales from India series is simply stunning! In addition to the marvelous selection of wildlife tales, you will find tales from India's tribal villages, colorful arid lands, lush green jungles, mighty sacred rivers, glacial peaks, crowded cities…

With the Ecological Tales from India series, environment education is no longer a boring subject that make kids slump over desks with a strong urge to sleep but one terrific journey around India. Mera Bhaat Mahaan!

To know more about the Ecological Tales from India series, click here

[Sultan Moinuddin]

it is great suggestion to create awareness about the environment among the children in early stages.

[ruchi]

as a subject environment vl b add in the sllyabus

[Ravi Menon]

would welcome CDs for distribution to our local units for sharing it with their local school kids.

[Prof Dr V N Sivasankara Pillai]

Thank you for the useful hints. It is time to create interest in stakeholders to through the time tested educational tool of story telling.

[Narayana Rao Mushti]

Dear ALL,
Imparting right attitude is more difficult than giving knowledge and skills.
Congrats to the authors of Ecological tales from India.

[GOPI KANTA GHOSH]

Great...