Research on current situation and approaches of environmental legal education in mainland China universities

dc.creator	Shu-wen YANG
dc.creator	Jing-ling LIU
dc.date	2004-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:08:42Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:08:42Z
dc.identifier	1609-4913
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ee3f548d384a460da09cbb8a6b1345b5
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/12228
dc.description	In this paper, environmental legal education in universities of Mainland China is analyzed. The questionnaire survey had been administered in several famous universities and normal universities of Mainland China. The main results are that: (1) 100% of those surveyed universities offer courses like environmental science, environmental engineering, environmental chemistry, ecology, environmental economics, and 70%~80% of them offer other courses about pollution control engineering, while only 40% universities offer a course on environmental law; (2) 59% undergraduate students whose major is environmental science or environmental engineering have some knowledge of environmental law, however, almost 64% university students in other majors have never heard about it, and they are also indifferent to it. The results reflect that the percentage of offering environmental law course is low and great gap exists in the environmental legal consciousness of undergraduate students in interrelated environmental majors and those in other majors. Finally some suggestions for improvement are given: (1) Revise the curricula, i.e. with an aim to offer a course on environmental law in every major; (2) Offer professional development workshop for teachers in order to promote environmental legal consciousness amongst teachers themselves; (3) Make use of various methods, such as distance education, all kinds of media and so on, to diffuse knowledge about environmental law for enhancing civil environmental legal consciousness.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Chinese
dc.publisher	Hong Kong Institute of Education
dc.relation	http://www.ied.edu.hk/apfslt/v5_issue3/yangsw/abstract.htm
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1609-4913
dc.source	Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Vol 5, Iss 3, p 6 (2004)
dc.subject	environmental legal consciousness
dc.subject	environmental legal education
dc.subject	higher education in mainland China
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Research on current situation and approaches of environmental legal education in mainland China universities
dc.type	article