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Conservation of the environment occupies the front burner in all development agenda. Institutions, governments and communities engage participants in discovering, preserving and beautification of natural resources in their homesteads and ecosystems. For adult learners, learning must be designed to go beyond rudimentary learning, to include nature study and conservation. This paper, therefore, examines the necessity for integrating aspects of environmental education in the programme of learning for adults. It is therefore established that integrating environmental activities into the adult learning experience will have a snow-ball effect on the environmental awareness and action of the other segments of the population (children, youth and the old).
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To Cite this Article: Ezimah, M. O. A. (2019). Making Learning Climate Convivial: Implications for Environmental Adult Education. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 8(2), 408–414.
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