Workshop focuses on enhancing green, environmental awareness

Workshop focuses on enhancing green, environmental awareness

Muscat: The Ministry of Education, represented by the Directorate-General of Curriculum Development and the Citizenship Department, implemented a training workshop entitled: “Sustainability and Environmental Citizenship...Green Curricula and a Responsible Decision-Making Generation.”

The programme targeted a number of employees of the Ministry’s General Diwan, and teachers of science and social studies subjects in Muscat Governorate Educational Directorate.

The workshop was presented by Dr. Basma Al Riyami, Citizenship Specialist at the Department of Citizenship.

The programme included several topics, including introducing green education, teaching mechanisms for green education, and greening the curriculum, which includes updating the current curricula to include content that reflects the concepts of environmental preservation and sustainability, in addition to developing new curricula that focuses on these issues, with the aim of enhancing environmental awareness and social responsibility among students, enabling them to make informed and responsible decisions towards the environment and society, developing critical thinking skills, solving problems related to the environment, promoting teamwork, and innovation in finding sustainable solutions to environmental challenges.

Employees were trained in the skills necessary to green curricula, carried out practical applications of some of these skills, and reviewed the efforts made by the Ministry of Education in green education.

The trainees were also introduced to the concepts