Extracurricular Environmental Activities: Opportunities and Challenges to Promoting Effective Environmental Education

The study aims to promote relevant and effective environmental education (EE) through
extracurricular clubs. For this, we studied the state of play of environmental activities (EA) carried out
by 48 environmental clubs belonging to urban and rural areas of the Regional Academy of Education
Fez-Meknes, Morocco. These extracurricular environmental clubs remain so far without formal
environmental education programs. In this study, we identified the bulk of programs offered by
extracurricular environment clubs, including types of scheduled activities and percentages of
achievement and student beneficiaries in urban and rural settings. In addition, we have identified the
main barriers to achieving certain environmental activities. The significant correlations detected
between some of the variables studied allowed us to better explain the achievements and the
weaknesses of these clubs. Finally, we have made recommendations to promote relevant and
effective extracurricular environmental education.