Projects in active education

Abstract

Education for sustainable development (ESD) provides knowledge and touches on the problems of the impact of our everyday life on a global scale. To protect ecosystems and improve the quality of human life, we must implement new social and personal good practices in everyday life. Education in this area is difficult and multifaceted because it must affects the social, ecological and economic sphere of the ongoing life. Among other things, it must include activities to change relationship between man and nature for a better. Educational projects widely used around the world it would appear to be a good educational method. These projects involve a large group of participants in the series of activities planned for a long time. Creating social bonds, they are a chance to introduce knowledge and numerous skills. St. Francis of Assisi was a personage who should be a role model of care and respect for nature. Nowadays he is considered a patron of among others naturalists and foresters. Nature education, being a part of education for sustainable development, should not to be based only on rigid schemes and the vastness of definitions. It ought to be based on specific skills and form the culture on everyday behavior. Like St. Francis, it is necessary to sensitize the beauty and usability of the entire nature and break some unfavorable stereotypes. This paper presents the advantages of educational projects and describes one – based on the idea proclaimed by St. Francis of Assisi. This project aims to bring the St. Francis figure closer, contains an offer to activate people related to the church for sustainable development and makes them aware of valuable species of animals and plants in the immediate human environment.