برنامج في التربية البيئية قائم على مدخل تفكير النظم لتنمية عادات التفكير والمسئولية البيئية لدى طلاب المرحلة الثانوية

Abstract

Environmentalists and decision-makers today face new and complex environmental challenges that affect human life. So, there is a need for a new interdisciplinary scientific tools and approaches to achieve sustainable solutions to protect human beings and their environment and to meet the challenges of the 21st century by understanding and managing the complexities of current and future problems.

Traditional problem-solving approaches that rely on linear thinking focused on a sequence of cause-and-effect linearity have become inadequate and ineffective to address such complexities. System thinking is therefore viewed as an approach or method of problem solving as a scientific approach that begins with the whole and takes into account complex relationships as well as variables for complex and social issues. The systems thinking approach depends on studying and seeing "problems" as parts of a holistic system rather than responding to certain parts, outputs, or events that may contribute to the creation of unintended consequences.

If the educational system is in charge of building the minds of individuals who can interact with the requirements of the age and deal with the problems of tomorrow, and even able to create a better future for itself and its community, so it must be reflected on the tools and programs. As environmental education is the primary driver for developing individuals' awareness of the environment, their systems, problems and issues, and addressing their problems, it is important to adopt a study of the methods and systems approach that encourage students to practice a set of habits and practices known as the habits of systems thinking.

The objectives of environmental education are not limited to the development of individuals' awareness only, but also to the formation of attitudes towards the environment and to environmental behavior and also the development of environmental responsibility. Which eventually produce responsible environmental behaviors that emerge through the individual's actions in his environment and daily life, enable him to maintain environmental resources for him and for future generations. Therefore, the development of environmental responsibility of the individual is very important and can only come through the adoption of modern methods and effective contribute to build a generation capable of positive interaction with ecosystems, and a generation of concepts, values, attitudes and skills, which allows him to understand the systems relationships that connects the human and its civilization to the environment in which it lives.