The Ecologisation of Schools and its Implications for Educational Policy

Ecologisation of Schools is a relatively new development within the international Environment and School Initatives (ENSI) Programme. In this paper three issues are discussed and exemplified by developments in Austria. The first deals with the meaning of ecologisation and with pedagogical, social/organisational and technical/economic quality criteria. Innovation strategies to achieve full coverage in the school system are the focus of the second section, and some organisational and legal conditions to support ecologisation initiatives are elaborated in the final section.