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Environmental education

About: Environmental education is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 14551 publications have been published within this topic receiving 211056 citations. The topic is also known as: environmental learning.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors ask if and how non-target pro-environmental behaviors are affected by environmental education and interventions to promote one proenvironmental behavior, and the spillover effect is discussed.
Abstract: When implementing environmental education and interventions to promote one pro-environmental behavior, it is seldom asked if and how non-target pro-environmental behaviors are affected. The spillov...

167 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a critical overview of environmental education as it is currently taught and practised, drawing on empirical data as well as structural and theoretical arguments, is presented, concluding with a brief discussion of four models of the relationship between schools and the local community.
Abstract: This paper will begin with a critical overview of environmental education as it is currently taught and practised, drawing on empirical data as well as structural and theoretical arguments. Five principal shortcomings are suggested: environmental education is invariably based on a teaching and learning model which is top‐down and centre to periphery; environmental education does not lead to action competence; environmental education lacks authenticity; the track record of demonstrable success in changing the attitudes and values of children to the environment is questionable; the social, cultural and political context must facilitate participation and change. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of four models of the relationship between schools and the local community.

167 citations

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TL;DR: The authors highlight current research findings from the environmental health, environmental education, and environmental psychology literatures regarding the cognitive, emotional, and physical importance of childhood exposure to nature and suggest several avenues of research that would significantly increase the understanding of youth-based environmental inequality.
Abstract: Although environmental inequality researchers have increased our understanding of race- and class-based environmental inequality in many important ways, few environmental inequality studies ask whether children are disproportionately burdened by environmental pollution or whether poor and minority youth are less likely than their White and wealthier counterparts to spend time in green spaces and the natural world This gap in the literature undermines the ability of researchers to fully understand and explain environmental inequality To demonstrate the importance of filling this gap, the authors (a) highlight current research findings from the environmental health, environmental education, and environmental psychology literatures regarding the cognitive, emotional, and physical importance of childhood exposure to nature and (b) summarize the few existing studies that have examined class- and race-based inequalities in children's exposure to the natural world and industrial environmental hazards The authors then suggest several avenues of research that would, if undertaken, significantly increase our understanding of youth-based environmental inequality By synthesizing findings across multiple disciplines, the authors hope to convince environmental inequality researchers of the importance of investigating children's differential exposure to nature, green spaces, and industrial environmental hazards

166 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the history of the relationship between science education and environmental education in Australian and international contexts is discussed and it is argued that given the on-going resistances to environmental education, the static nature of science education practices, and declining student interest in studying traditional science subject, it is time to reconsider the relationship.
Abstract: This paper discusses the history of the relationship between science education and environmental education in Australian and international contexts and argues that - given the on-going resistances to environmental education in schools, the static nature of science education practices, and declining student interest in studying traditional science subject - it is time to reconsider the relationship. If we are to achieve sustainable development, then science education must have a role in encouraging ecological thinking. However, the science education that can be an appropriate 'host' for environmental education is not necessarily that currently practised, but a reconceptualized form could well be what is needed. From a historical perspective this paper suggests that it might be time to reconsider science education's function as a 'host' for environmental education and try to imagine a more mutualistic relationship.

165 citations

Book
01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: The handbook of environmental education as discussed by the authors is a handbook for environmental education, which can be found in the library of the University of Essex, United Kingdom, UK. http://www.thehandbookofenvironmental education.org.uk
Abstract: The handbook of environmental education , The handbook of environmental education , کتابخانه دیجیتال جندی شاپور اهواز

165 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023377
2022796
2021505
2020675
2019631
2018607