Green Infrastructure Facilities and Environmental Peace-building in Nigerian Schools
Keywords:
Development, Environmental Peacebuilding, Green school facilities, SchoolsAbstract
The paper explores the role of green infrastructure facilities in Nigerian schools. The paper is a position paper. It employed secondary data to support the points raised. The secondary data were collected from online publications and print materials. Content analysis was adopted to select the final literature used in the paper. The paper concludes that the development of green school infrastructure facilities in the schools in Nigeria will support the implementation of teaching and learning in the schools, support sound health and a conducive learning environment, serve as instructional resources and excursion sites for students and academic purposes and research purposes. Based on these findings, the paper recommends that governments at all levels, international organizations and private institutions should be directly involved in the development of green school infrastructure facilities in all Nigerian schools. Governments at all levels should create special funds for the development of green infrastructure facilities in all Nigerian schools. The government should organize training for school administrators and teachers on the effective ways of managing and maintaining green facilities in the schools.
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