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1 online resource (577 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: An Orientation to Environmental Education and the Handbook; Part A. Conceptualizing Environmental Education as a Field of Inquiry; Section I. Historical, Contextual, and Theoretical Orientations That Have Shaped Environmental Education Research; 2 The Emergence of Environmental Education Research: A "History" of the Field |
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3 Socioecological Approaches to Environmental Education and Research: A Paradigmatic Response to Behavioral Change Orientations4 Thinking Globally in Environmental Education: A Critical History; 5 Selected Trends in Thirty Years of Doctoral Research in Environmental Education in Dissertation Abstracts International From Collections Prepared in the United States of America; 6 Transformation, Empowerment, and the Governing of Environmental Conduct: Insights to be Gained From a "History of the Present" Approach |
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Section II. Normative Dimensions of Environmental Education Research: Conceptions of Education and Environmental Ethics7 Probing Normative Research in Environmental Education: Ideas About Education and Ethics; 8 Self, Environment, and Education: Normative Arisings; 9 A Critical Theory of Place-Conscious Education; 10 Learning From Hermit Crabs, Mycelia, and Banyan: Schools as Centers of Critical Inquiry and Renormatization; 11 Why We Need a Language of (Environmental) Education; 12 Environmental Ethics as Processes of Open-Ended, Pluralistic, Deliberative Enquiry |
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Section III. Analyses of Environmental Education Discourses and Policies13 The Politics of Needs and Sustainability Education; 14 Languages and Discourses of Education, Environment, and Sustainable Development; 15 Researching Tensions and Pretensions in Environmental/Sustainability Education Policies: From Critical to Civically Engaged Policy Scholarship; 16 Changing Discourses in EE/ESD: A Role for Professional Self-Development; 17 Connecting Vocational and Technical Education With Sustainability; 18 Trends, Junctures, and Disjunctures in Latin American Environmental Education Research |
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19 EE Policies in Three Chinese Communities: Challenges and Prospects for Future DevelopmentPart B. Research on Environmental Education Curriculum, Learning, and Assessment: Processes and Outcomes; Section IV. Curriculum Research in Environmental Education; 20 Traditions and New Niches: An Overview of Environmental Education Curriculum and Learning Research; 21 Environmental Education in a Cultural Context; 22 Place-Based Education: Practice and Impacts; 23 Getting the Picture: From the Old Reflection-Hearing Pictures and Telling Tales, to the New Reflection-Seeing Voices and Painting Scenes |
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24 Moinho D'Água: Environmental Education, Participation, and Autonomy in Rural Areas |
| Summary |
The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment, health, development, and education. The growth in scholarship makes this an opportune time to review and synthesize the knowledge base of the environmental education (EE) field. The purpose of this 51-chapter handbook is not only to illuminate the most important concepts, findings and theor |
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Print version record |
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General education.
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Environmental education.
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Environmental education
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General education
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brody, Michael S.
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Dillon, Justin
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Wals, Arjen E. J
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| ISBN |
9781136699313 |
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1136699317 |
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