WASTE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION WITH THE GREENOPOLI PROJECT: FROM SCHOOLS TO TELEVISION

Greenopoli is an education framework developed since 2006 to conduct environmental campaigns. It has involved around 300 schools and more than 50,000 students, mainly in Southern Italy, from December 2014 up to now. Two are the main keywords of Greenopoli: sharing and sustainability. The first one relates to the teaching method, while the second one to the contents. With the Greenopoli method, the role of the educator changes to assume the functions of ‘moderator’, who first makes the students discuss about the topic and then, at appropriate intervals, intervenes to support and relaunch the discussion or introduce new concepts (De Feo, 2014). The educator creates a friendly, cheerful, and regard-based environment will undoubtedly bring to build up compatibility between the educator and students and provides aids with leading questions and hints to uplift the student’s level (Fisher, 2005; Feuerstein et al., 2010; Rosen and Falik, 2019).