The study aims to approach the concept, role and meaning of ecological lifestyle education in order to raise the awareness of Vietnamese students in building a sustainable lifestyle, and minimizing negative impacts to the environment. The paper focuses on clarifying the theoretical framework on eco-lifestyles, analyzing the necessity as well as orienting ecological education for students. | HNUE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE Educational Sciences 2020 Volume 64 Issue 4B pp. 13-21 This paper is available online at http ECOLOGICAL LIFESTYLE EDUCATION FOR VIETNAMESE STUDENTS - THEORETICAL APPROACH AND SOLUTION ORIENTATION Hoang Thi Thinh and Nguyen Thi Thanh Tung Faculty of Politic Theory and Civic Education Hanoi National University of Education Abstract. The study aims to approach the concept role and meaning of ecological lifestyle education in order to raise the awareness of Vietnamese students in building a sustainable lifestyle and minimizing negative impacts to the environment. The paper focuses on clarifying the theoretical framework on eco-lifestyles analyzing the necessity as well as orienting ecological education for students. The research results emphasize a number of orientations especially in terms of content and methods of ecological lifestyle education to help students to understand the meaning of building ecological lifestyles associated with specific actions to mitigate the effects of environmental degradation and climate change. In addition the study also provides reference suggestions for lecturers and teachers at other educational institutions to improve the effectiveness of ecological education for students. Keywords ecological lifestyle Ecological lifestyle education Vietnamese students. 1. Introduction Recently the issues of education about awareness of protecting environment environmental ethics education and ecological sustainable and green lifestyle education has become global demanding positive actions from both governments and citizen. Among them education on ecological lifestyle shows positive implications for learners especially students at universities and colleges. In Vietnam the National Strategy on Green Growth with a vision of 2050 has identified that a green way of life and a way of living in harmony with the environment are 2 of the 17 key solutions. 1 The theory of ecological lifestyle and ecological lifestyle
