Development of skills for environmental problem resolution in an African context

An educational model centred on an approach to solving environmental proble ms may promote among student teachers the development of cognitive skills a nd skills that may lead to environmental action. However, the testing of th is model has not shown that other skills related to this type of problem re solution have also resulted, specifically, the ability to look critically a t their own attitudes and behaviours and the ability to analyse the nature of their interrelations with others. We attribute this to the fact that the se skills, which are more introspective probably require a more complex lev el of reasoning in order to develop.