NZAEE? Who are we?

NZAEE is a national, independent, non-profit organisation with eight branches from Northland to Otago/Southland, a national office in Wellington and around 400 members. It was formed in Christchurch in 1984 to promote and support environmental education (EE). Our initial focus was on schools and the natural environment but we soon widened to community education and the social, cultural and economic aspects of the environment.

Nationally we include teachers (from pre-school through to universities and polytechs), students, community organisations, people in local, regional and central government, education contractors and businesses. Our local members include an alpaca farmer, an historian, a surfer, community groups, education contractors, teachers, university staff and government employees (local, regional, central) and businesses, with an age range from 20s to 80s.

What do we get up to?

• We network nationally and locally with ideas, info, resources and events.
• We work to get EE better supported in formal education - NZAEE members played a major role in getting a national EE strategy (Ministry for the Environment) and national EE curriculum guidelines for schools.
• We contributed to getting a stronger focus on the environment and sustainability in the new national curriculum for schools.
• We provide feedback to Ministry of Education on EE annually and advocate for EE (in the widest sense) with politicians.
• We provide and support local workshops and seminars.
• We hold a national conference every two years.
• We co-ordinate Seaweek nationally.
• We produce a regular national e-newsletter.
• And in Christchurch we produce ecoNet Newsletter!

Why bother?

Because this is all more important than ever before.

What are your ideas?

If you have ideas about environmental education and education for sustainability for Christchurch and Canterbury you want to contribute, or if you want to find out more, email our local secretary Jocelyn: jyc497@gmail.com

National website www.nzaee.org.nz

 

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ecoNet is updated each Friday by Christchurch Branch of NZAEE (NZ Association for Environmental Education), a non-profit, national organisation of people working to promote and support environmental education, lifelong learning and sustainable behaviour throughout New Zealand/Aotearoa.

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