Planning to educate, educating to plan
Abstract title:
Planning to educate,
educating to plan: Conservation Education in an ecologically critical
landscape.
Conference:
Authors:
Nimesh Ved, Jayanta
Pathak, Firoz Ahmed & Bibhuti Lahkar
Communicating author:
Abstract text:
Conservation education
efforts across the country have been severely restricted by lack of adequate
resources and absence of long term planning. As a corollary we have well
intentioned individuals and organizations organizing disconnected events during
wildlife week and environment days. Stress has been on generating stand alone
materials and reaching out to higher numbers as opposed to coming up with a
cohesive long term plan and strengthening capacities to implement the plan.
We understand there is
a dire need to have a long term plan for conservation education in place. A
plan that is not only sensitive to local values and mores but also open to
imbibe from recent developments in education like experiential education and
transformational education. Towards this we have initiated an invigorating
process that pools together expertise from across the country, engages them in
churning of ideas with people familiar with the landscape, enables agreements
and disagreements, and comes up with a plan for the landscape. The local team
can then work on the details.
A week long workshop
has been designed for the participants to not only have extensive deliberations
but also invest time in the landscape. Experts bearing varied experiences play
a pivotal role right from the design stage and help come up with a long term
plan for the landscape and a template for conservation education planning in
landscapes bearing similar socio-ecological values. A lively gathering where
participants engage in animated discussions rather than make presentations.
This design we
understand presents a unique opportunity for the conservation education efforts
to garner direction and depth.
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