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Sholokhov Museum at the Conference on Environmental Education

12.11.2013

The museum-workers of the National M.A.Sholokhov Museum-Reserve took part in the Third All-Russian Conference on Environmental Education which was held on November, 7–8, in Moscow.

The event was organized by the international environmental organization “Greenlight” and the V.I.Vernadsky Non-Governmental Environmental Fund. The forum discussed the objectives and presumable results of environmental education for sustainable development for all levels of education and public awareness, legal aspects of creating a state system of continuous environmental education, presented the best practices in the field of environmental education of different social groups.

The workers of the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov gave a talk “Museum-Reserve as an Institution of Public Environmental Education and Awareness”, which presented a multilevel system of continuous public environmental education: from preschool children to applicants of academic degrees.

The conference joined about 200 representatives of the federal and regional legislative and executive bodies, museum-reserves and specially protected natural areas, universities and secondary schools, experts in the field of environmental education and awareness, activists of the public environmental organizations.

The conference resulted in development of recommendations for upgrading the technology of current environmental education. Besides, the forum members could exchange their experience in the field.

Yana Korobova