According to the North American Association for Environmental Education, environmental education has a profound impact on young people. These impacts are being measured, recorded and dispersed in academic journals throughout. Here is another excerpt to learn more about the benefits of environmental education.
Impacts that were measured and reported were on life skills and personal growth. “EE’s immersive approach helps students learn life skills that can’t come from a worksheet in a classroom and go beyond improving academic performance. Emphasizing the whole student, EE seeks to increase students’ success broadly and holistically-from helping them develop confidence, autonomy, and leadership, to building social skills in collaborative work, deliberative dialogue, and conflict management both inside and outside the classroom. A middle school teacher using EE observed, “The program really enhanced students’ personal growth-they became more independent and more tolerant. They demonstrated grater problem solving and collaborative skills, as well as positive gains in social competencies like leadership, recognizing the value of cooperative efforts, enhancing capacity to get along with others, social negotiation, and cultivating leaders in the community.”1
1. Boyer, S.J. & Bishop, P.A. (2004). Young adolescent voices: Students’ perceptions of interdisciplinary teaming. Research in Middle Level Education 28(1), 1-19