Environmental Learning: Insights from research into the student experience

✍ Scribed by Mark Rickinson, Cecilia Lundholm, Nick Hopwood (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 150
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Environmental education and education for sustainable development have become features of many countries’ formal education systems. To date, however, there have been few attempts to explore what such learning looks and feels like from the perspective of the learners. Based on in-depth empirical studies in school and university classrooms, this book presents rich insights into the complexities and dynamics of students’ environmental learning. The authors show how careful analysis of students’ environmental learning experiences can provide powerful pointers for future practice, policy and research. Environmental Learning will be a key resource for educators, teacher educators, decision-makers and researchers involved in education and sustainable development.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
What Is Environmental Learning?....Pages 11-21
Researching Environmental Learning....Pages 23-32
Lenses for Understanding Environmental Learning....Pages 33-45
Dealing with Emotions and Values....Pages 47-61
Questioning Relevance....Pages 63-82
Negotiating Viewpoints Among Students and Teachers....Pages 83-96
Enhancing Environmental Learning....Pages 97-107
Erratum....Pages 150-151
Back Matter....Pages 109-148

✦ Subjects

Education (general); Learning & Instruction; Curriculum Studies; Teaching and Teacher Education; Environment, general; Sustainable Development