Dissemination In School Projects Of Environmental Education: A Case Study

Research Article
Maria Kalathaki
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science
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Maria Kalathaki
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Dissemination of the project results is a planned process of providing information on the project process, outcomes, experiences and initiatives to key actors. This involves spreading the word about the project successes and outcomes as far as possible, making others aware and contributing in other organizations’ raising their profile. Communication is a broader concept in dissemination and exploitation of the project results. It includes information and promotion activities to raise awareness and enhance the visibility of the project’s activities. The research aimed to reveal the mechanisms for dissemination of project results and feedback that teachers plan and apply as part of the educational process of School Projects of Environmental Education (SPEEs). It carried out a qualitative research with content analysis of archival material with quantitating the findings by the use of analysis criteria. It carried out in the archival material of the SPEEs that had materialized in lower secondary schools of Heraklion prefecture. SPEEs’ research revealed that the ultimate beneficiaries of the project results are satisfactorily determined (eg local entities related matter), they are invited in many actions and activities of SPEE, mainly at the project presentation, where, also, distributed special material. So, in this way, the opening of school to the society offers important feedback and develops dissemination mechanism of the project, as important component of the design of SPEEs and basic requirement of Environmental Education and Education for the Sustainable Development.