Which organization described teacher preparation in Environmental Education as…

Concept

Attribution questions about a distinctive policy phrase should be resolved by tracing the phrase to the issuing organization and its publication, rather than merely matching an organization with the broad subject area. A jointly issued institutional document supports attribution to the named issuing bodies.

Application

The UNESCO–UNEP International Environmental Education Programme published ‘Environmentally Educated Teachers: The Priority of Priorities?’ in its Connect newsletter in 1990. Among the offered choices, UNESCO is therefore the organization directly associated with this description.

Contrast

• The Supreme Court of India is the country’s apex constitutional court; it adjudicates environmental cases but was not the issuing organization for this phrase.

• The Ministry of Environment and Forests is an Indian Union ministry for environmental policy and conservation, not the publisher of the UNESCO–UNEP formulation.

• NCERT develops school curricula, textbooks and educational research in India; the cited formulation came from the UNESCO–UNEP programme.

Cross-check

The bibliographic record identifies UNESCO–UNEP, Connect, volume XV, issue 1 (1990), pages 1–3, with the title ‘Environmentally Educated Teachers: The Priority of Priorities?’ This independently confirms the attribution.

Result

Thus, the answer is UNESCO.