Environmental Education as a Religious Education from the Viewpoints of Holistic Education

ABSTRACT

The Purpose of this study is to form a teaching plan of environmental education as a religious education from the viewpoints of holistic education, which is now considered as an alternative approach to modernistic education. From the viewpoint of holistic education, we need to incorporate the frame of environmental education into the perspectives in the following: 1) to emphasize a respect for life and relationships among living things; 2) To emphasize earth ecology education and earth community education; 4) To emphasize the education which integrate body, emotions, consciousness, the spirit; 5) To emphasize an environment in which teachers and students would be real or genuine their communication and meeting. Holistic education suggests transdisciplinary approach for environmental education. Following this viewpoint, this research is carried out through integrating the Gurjieff’s Enneagram into a holistic model. A 6-step model emphasized a perspective of holistic environmental education so that it fully presented holistic environmental teaching and learning mode which encompassed left-brain learning mode, right-brain learning mode, physical-sensory learning mode, and affective learning mode, to be holistically used for learners. It is also expected that the 6-step model will be effectively implemented for learners to enhance their inquiry, creativity, environmental process mind, attitudes toward mankind and universe, and to holistically develop learner’s variety abilities.