The Implementation of Environmental Education in elementary schools

In the age of global communication where it is possible to become abreast with environmental or socio-political trends from different countries across the world Sweden andGermany are known as global leaders in different fields. Especially their role in the educational systems is discussed a lot. EU-countries pay much attention to the Swedish waycommonly known as Swedish Model1 and the German way is in general known with high quality standards in education. The Stockholm Conference in 1972 and in particular the RioConference in 1992 was the start that Sweden has environmentally led the world. Sweden is one of the pioneering countries in education for all including immigrants. Germany is knownfor good qualification in the education. EE plays in both educational system - in Sweden and Germany - an important role which is discussed in the present paper.