Reflections on the Ways to Build up Responsibility towards Nature in Primary School

Responsibility towards nature is a character trait that must be formed and developed from a young age. Children must learn how to fight against the complexity of problems, how to use interdisciplinary approaches by taking into consideration links with other problems, and to be able to evaluate facts and situations which lead to the deterioration of the environment. Alongside infusing the messages of environmental ethics, the use of pupil centered educational strategies represents an efficient way to train the children from the ecological point of view. Education cannot succeed in building up the ecological conscience and the ethic competences of the young generation without being accompanied by a new ethics - the ecological ethics - based on the man's respect towards nature, without using an adequate educational strategy and some dilemmas that include facts or situations which result in deteriorating the environment. This study aims to conduct a thorough analysis of the theoretical and practical ways to build up responsibility towards nature in the primary school.