Effectiveness and applicability of Environmental Education

The quest to identify the applicability and effectiveness of Environmental Education (EE) activities in different fields of activity leads us to visualise their strengths and weaknesses. The main aim of this study was to discuss the effectiveness and applicability of formal and non-formal environmental education through the perceptions of environmental educators. It also sought to encourage the development of studies that create tools to evaluate the effectiveness of environmental education, with the aim of improving its applicability in all sectors. This was a quantitative study, associated with the interpretation of data collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. It was concluded that, in general, there is still a long way to go for environmental education to be effective. Not only in the academic debate, environmental education must prioritise criticality and pragmatism so that it can be transformative and emancipatory in all the fields in which it operates.