Education for Sustainability| International Greening Education Event 2013 Paper: Escuelas Verdes Program - A contribution to the democratization of Environmental Education

This paper proposes an approach to address the challenge of democratizing Environmental Education from a governmental entity while representing an opportunity to enrich the overall education of students and strengthen school planning and integration amongst subjects, teachers, and their communities. It is based on the experience and lessons gathered by the program Escuelas Verdes (Green Schools) of the Ministry of Education of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Along this review the points aforementioned are developed making special emphasis in good practices, lessons learnt and procedures in democratizing ESD in order to enable extensive scope, replicability and quality education. This review is based upon documented evidence and an analysis of documentation. On the other hand, it takes into consideration interviews done to key actors within the program.