Education, Community Engagement and Sustainable Development [electronic resource] : Negotiating Environmental Knowledge in Monteverde, Costa Rica /
Blum, Nicole.author.
A growing body of research has given critical attention to diverse theories and practices of environmental education, and its potential contribution to addressing pressing global issues such as sustainable development and climate change. While much of this work has focused on perspectives and practices in Europe and North America, this book explores environmental learning within formal education, in programmes by non-governmental organisations, and in public education spaces in Monteverde, Costa Rica. The discussion also highlights the need for more research to understand the broader social and economic interactions between such efforts and the communities in which they are located.
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""Education, Community Engagement and Sustainable Development""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction""; ""Environmental Education in Latin America""; ""Nature of the Research""; ""Central Arguments""; ""The Need to Widen Perspectives""; ""The Need to Understand Environmental Learning as a Process and Learners as Active Participants""; ""The Need to Explore Learning in Context""; ""International Policy on Environmental Education""; ""Education, Learning and Social Change""; ""Exploring Perspectives on Environmental Learning""; ""Structure of the Book""
""References""""Chapter 2: Education, Environment, Development and the Costa Rican State""; ""Historical Development of National Education Discourses and the State Education System""; ""Organisation of the National Education System""; ""Implementation and Effectiveness""; ""State Environmental Management, the Ecotourism Industry and Scientific Research""; ""State-Funded Environmental Education""; ""Schools""; ""National Conservation Areas""; ""Defining and Implementing Environmental Education in the State System""; ""Regional and International Influences""; ""References""
""Chapter 3: Environmental Education in Schools""""Welcome to Monteverde""; ""Formal Education in Monteverde""; ""Environmental Education in Monteverdeâ€?s Schools""; ""State Primary Schools and Temas Transversales""; ""Training for Environmental Education""; ""State Secondary Schooling""; ""Environmental Learning in the Ecotourism Programme""; ""Teachersâ€? Perspectives on the Curriculum""; ""The Cloudforest School""; ""Defining and Implementing Environmental Education""; ""Relationships to the State and the Community""; ""Teaching Science or Cultivating Values?""; ""References""
""Chapter 4: Environmental Education and Conservation Organisations""""Early Settlement and the Growth of Local Conservation""; ""Science, Conservation and Local Environmental Management""; ""NGOs and the Growth of Local Environmental Education""; ""A Tale of Two Reserves""; ""Promoting Ecological Knowledge""; ""Educational Approach and Impacts""; ""Training the Next Generation of Educators""; ""Educational Approach and Impacts""; ""Diverse Approaches, Diverse Positions""; ""Environmental Knowledge and Community Relationships""; ""References""
""Chapter 5: Environmental Knowledge in Public Spaces""""Local Development Issues""; ""Community Organisation and the Importance of Public Spaces for Education""; ""Local Styles of Debate and Negotiation""; ""Discourses of Sustainable Developmentâ€?""; ""â€? and Competing Discourses of Development""; ""Participation in Local Organisations""; ""Community Development: Ecotourism vs Environmental Protection?""; ""Competition and Cooperation in the Local Ecotourism Industry""; ""Negotiating Environmental Knowledge in the Community""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6: Conclusions""
""Contributions to Existing Research""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A growing body of research has given critical attention to diverse theories and practices of environmental education, and its potential contribution to addressing pressing global issues such as sustainable development and climate change. While much of this work has focused on perspectives and practices in Europe and North America, this book explores environmental learning within formal education, in programmes by non-governmental organisations, and in public education spaces in Monteverde, Costa Rica. The discussion also highlights the need for more research to understand the broader social and economic interactions between such efforts and the communities in which they are located.
Sustainable development.
International education .
Comparative education.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Education.
Anthropology.
Sustainable Development.
International and Comparative Education.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Education, general.
Anthropology.