01495nas a2200133   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100002200043245015000065856014900215300001000364490000700374520098000381                                       d1 aPanas Karampampas00aImpact and Challenges of Disseminating Ideas on Environmental Consciousness through Intangible Cultural Heritage Educational Programmes in Greece  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85196544775&doi=10.3167%2fajec.2024.330107&partnerID=40&md5=feaed92fd055a39db7b9d6bcebe9e99c  a59-710 v333 aThis article examines the challenges associated with implementing and designing educational programmes on intangible cultural heritage (ICH) concerning environmental consciousness. These include (1) students being disconnected from the context of the ICH elements of the programmes; (2) teachers lacking adequate ICH training in designing and implementing the programmes; and (3) a Kafkaesque bureaucracy and incommensurability between actors. These programmes relate to a trend derived from UNESCO and European Union interests in transmitting ICH through education. Some of these challenges are surpassed by ‘avocational individuals’ who go beyond their job descriptions to enhance student learning. The article demonstrates how such programmes redefine human– environment relationships and make practical suggestions. Although the ethnographic examples are from Greece, the findings are arguably relevant to other places with a similar educational and social context.