Educational Awareness on Climate Change Awareness

        I was during the third term when I was still a first year education degree student when we had a week-long assignment on education awareness or also known as educational awareness. Out lecturer gave us the option of choosing our own topic if it is related to the subject area of education awareness. In my assignment, I first defined education awareness as making individuals, groups, or organizations to be perceptive or have the awareness about a particular topic, issue or concern that needs attention.

        Then, I selected the topic of educational awareness for the issue of climate change and I focused my assignment paper about the importance of why everyone involved in education should raise awareness and perception about the issues, concerns and problems about climate change. I stated in my paper that everyone who is a stakeholder in education such as the schools, educators, government agencies, non-government organizations, communities, and other stakeholders should have programs that would involve the efforts or activities in increasing the education awareness for climate change.

        To research for my assignment, I read and studied reference books, journals, newspapers and magazines, and other reading materials about educational awareness on climate change. I found out that in the local level such as a primary school in a community, the concerned people in the school could plan and carry out educational programs in the school that would raise the awareness of the students about being knowledgeable on the issues concerning climate change.

        I learned that a primary school does not necessarily have to introduce a new or separate subject or create a special class so that the students would be aware about climate change. The school administration could include the topic of climate change in the subjects of sciences and social studies where climate change could be discussed in several ways such as a combination of class discussions, assignments and laboratory works.

Writing My Research Paper on Educational Awareness

         As a second year education degree student, one of the most challenging assignments I did are a research paper on the meaning and relevance of educational awareness or also known as education awareness. Since we only had a week to research, write and submit our respective research papers, I had to do a comprehensive research on the subject of education awareness especially it's meaning and its relevance to education.

        From the books and other reading materials that I researched, read and studied in the library, I learned that educational awareness is a concept of an individual, groups, organisations, and institutions of being perceptive and conscious of the issues, concerns, and problems in education. Another aspect of education awareness is the effort and activities of individuals, organisations, and institutions to make others aware of the important or essential issues, concerns, and problems that need to be addressed in education. So I focused my research paper on an example of an issue in education that the people and organisations should be made aware.

        The educational awareness example that I used in my research paper are the problems in special education for elementary school students. I stated in my paper that it is not only the parents, federal government agencies and local government authorities who should be made aware of the various problems faced by special education classes in public elementary schools in the United States. But the policy makers in the state and federal legislatures, non-government organisations, and even the ordinary taxpayers should be aware and get involved in any way they could about the various issues and concerns faced by the special education system in various school districts in the U.S. The issues such as the proper identification of students with special education needs, and the continuing debate on whether a disabled student should be placed in a regular classroom or in a separate special education class.