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Overview
The main objective of
the environmental education programme is to teach Shimshali students in
the context of their surroundings; to make formal education relevant to
the circumstances of students' daily lives. Teachers at both the Federal
Government Middle School Shimshal (for boys) and the Aga Khan Diamond
Jubilee (DJ) Middle School have been involved for four years in training
students to collect descriptive and statistical information in ten
areas: nature, livestock, population, daily life, weather, tourism,
politics, social structure, history and agriculture. Each year the
information collected is compiled, collated and translated into English
by Shimshali college students studying down country. Students learn
about their social and natural environment, and customary ways of
perceiving and treating it, as they collect and interpret information.
As the Nature Trust develops the resultant annual reports will be used
as planning documents for ongoing initiatives by the other programmes.
Two annual reports are already available in Shimshal; one is available
on World Wide Web site www.monitor.net/~jmko/karakoram.
Objectives
- to generate information and data for village-level
planning, management, and development.
- to develop a database for future reference.
- to provide Shimshal's youth with a sense of
research and exploration.
- to develop in Shimshal's youth a sense of
responsibility to preserve nature, and to understand the
relationship between the physical and social environment.
Activities
- development of format
- data collection
- data analysis
- publication of results
- organization of lectures, seminars, workshops and
exhibitions of findings at the village level
Ten Year Work Plan
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Phase1
(1994-1998)
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Phase2
(1999-2003)
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Phase3
(2003-2009)
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Subject:
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grass
roots level data collection
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specialized
research
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advanced
research
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Target
Group:
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middle
school teachers
and
students
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higher
secondary
school
students
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foreign
and local
research
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Results:
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annual
report, database,
village
level demonstrations
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special
reports; lectures
at
regional level
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workshops
at local, national and
international
level
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Sponsorship
Individuals, Pakistani and
international universities, NGOs and government organizations.
Monitoring and Evaluation
Shimshal Nature Trust, Aga Khan
Education Services, IUCN, WWF, Government Education Department, and
other concerned organizations.
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