Objectives and Content of the School Environmental Projects in Terms of Teachers’ Training

Abstract

This research is interested in checking whether the content of the school projects of
Environmental Education falls within the field of Adult Education. If these projects offer,
indirectly, in-school teachers’ training because the participated teachers are simultaneously
educators and learners, trainers and trainees, as long as they co-construct each environmental
program jointly. This research focused not only on the setting goals and objectives but also on
whether the development of the content are being structured in the frame of Environmental
and Adult Education. It was carried out a case study, content analysis with analysis of texts of
archival material of the submitted programs into the Secondary Education Secretariat of
Heraklion Crete of Greece during 2005-2006 school year, as combination of qualitative and
quantitative analysis.