PRELIMINARY DATA ON THE ASSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CONSIDERATIONS IN CURRICULA OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

This study presents the preliminary data of the assessment regarding the level of consideration of environmental education into the curricula of the preliminary and secondary education in Albania. Education for sustainable development, promoting Sustainable Development Goals 2016-2030 should orient the education system towards the process, which offers students knowledge, skills and behaviors patters for being active and informed citizens, responsible for a sustainable environment, economy and society.In the new and reformed curricula, this education is considered as crosscurricular subject,supporting students to understand the complex challenges such as climate changes, inequalities and poverty. The objective of this study is the assessment of the role of the education for sustainable development in the education programs and teaching books of the elementary and secondary education in Albania.It aims at evaluating the way how the environmental topics are presented, the level of inclusion and integration of the environmental concepts, the extend of terminology and knowledge in the school books. There are 86 curricula programs and respective schools books analyses in both levels of the education, aiming at establishing a baseline for further comparative studies. The school texts play an important role in the environmental education, but only a small part of them contain teaching hours on environmental themes in full pedogogical aparatus: information based, figures and exercises.