Engaging environmental education
Subtitle: learning, culture and agency
By: edited by Robert B. Stevenson, Justin Dillon
Publisher: Sense
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rotterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9789460911606; 9789460911590; 9789460911613
Subjects: Sustainable development; Environmental education; Study and teaching; Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Introduction to issues in learning, culture and agency in environmental education / Robert Stevenson and Justin Dillon; title: Learning and agency in formal education contexts. Exploring student learning and challenges in formal environmental education / Mark Rickinson and Cecilia Lundholm. Rainbow warriors : the unfolding of agency in early adolescents' environmental involvement / Natasha Blanchet-Cohen; title: Learning and agency in community contexts. Social learning in action : a reconstruction of an urban community moving towards sustainability / Arjen Wals and Leonore Noorduyn. Synergy of the commons : co-facilitated learning and collective action / Charlotte Clark; title: Learning and agency in workplace and informal contexts. If the public knew better, they would act better? : the pervasive power of the myth of the ignorant public / Elin Kelsey and Justin Dillon. Learning and participation in developmental projects directed towards sustainable development in conference centres / Jeppe Læssoøe and Monica Carlsson; title: Learning and agency in a media culture. The role and influence of news media on public understanding of environmental issues / Martin Storksdieck and Cathlyn Stylinski. Popular media, intersubjective learning and cultural production / Marcia McKenzie, Constance Russell, Leesa Fawcett and Nora Timmerman; title: Learning research and research as learning. Understanding others, understanding ourselves : engaging in constructive dialogue about process in doctoral study in (environmental) education / Jutta Nikel, Kelly Teamey, Se-Young Hwang, Benjamin Alberto Pozos-Hernandez ; with Alan Reid and Paul Hart. New possibilities for mediation in society : how is environmental education research responding? / Rob O'Donoghue and Heila Lotz-Sisitka; title: Conclusion. Environmental learning and agency in diverse educational and cultural contexts / Robert Stevenson with Carolyn Stirling.