Conference sessions, keynote speakers, and symposia will all provide a rich forum for reflecting on the roles that environmental educators can play in shaping formal and nonformal education in the years to come. Education reform is making fundamental changes in schooling. Whether we consider our work to be within formal K-12 schools, nonformal settings, or higher education, the education reform movement challenges us all to ponder questions related to what we teach, how we teach, how we prepare educators, and how we view the very nature of schooling. There is much that we as environmental educators can learn from education reform. There is also much that environmental education as a field can offer to successful schooling.
Format facilitates informal discussions among participants about the topic or program.
Each presenter is allotted one round table to encourage individual discussions. Multiple interact discussions run simultaneously in the same room with participants freely flowing from one table to another throughout the session. No audiovisual presentations permitted. Presenters and participants have the opportunity for an informal discussion of the research with a free flow of participants throughout the session. Simultaneous poster sessions in the same room all focused on EE research.