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7800545 
Journal Article 
Environmental chemistry education for the 21st Century 
Tanaka, H 
2000 
Yes 
Journal of the Indian Chemical Society
ISSN: 0019-4522 
77 
11-12 
531-538 
English 
WOS:000172310700006 
Education plays a critical role in realizing sustainable development and promoting the capability of the people to address environmental/developmental issues. On the verge of the 21st Century, educational reforms and development are placed at a high priority in many countries. In the Asia-Pacific region, a project called "Learning for a Sustainable Environment Innovations in Teacher Education through Environmental Education" initiated by UNESCO-ACEID has contributed towards the promotion of environmental education, specifically comprehensive one in school. It is also evident that science/chemistry is one of the most important subjects in dealing with environmental education. The relationship between human life and the environment can logically be explained through scientific/chemical skills and knowledge. Accordingly it is required that some chemistry-oriented teaching materials on comprehensive environmental education be effectively implemented in school. al treatment of waste material and wastewater generated in school laboratories can be the appropriate teaching material for environmental chemistry education, because the treatment involves some typically important chemical reactions such as precipitation, neutralization, oxidation-reduction, and so on. Some reaction cycles for recovering several chemical compounds from wastewater involving iron, manganese, copper and so on are useful to secondary school chemistry as well as introductory general chemistry at colleges and universities. It is important to develop chemical recycling systems for such metallic ions in school laboratories and to introduce the principle of recycling as a practice of environmental protection by students themselves. Such an approach enables students to understand chemical reactions involved and the role of chemistry in preserving our environment,, which may in turn lead to environ mentally responsible attitudes and actions in their daily lives. 
thermal-analysis; synthetic malachite; green chemistry; decomposition; kinetics