ABSTRACT
Education and participation are interlinked and lack of environmental education is a concern for children and young people. Concern for the environment and the relationship between human beings and nature has been a recurrent political and social issue throughout the twentieth century. Protecting the environment means different things to different people. Despite the fact that the UK is party to a number of international agreements and treaties relating to the environment, many children and young people still face environmental hazards. Moral values education, that addresses environmental issues, can occur everywhere that environmental education occurs. Moral values education, if properly conducted, inevitably exposes the values of the school. For the teacher trying to develop environmental education across the curriculum, the use of politics at all stages has tremendous potential. From a community education stance it is seen as using the community as a resource for the curriculum.
