Expanding the field: revisiting environmental education principles through multidisciplinary frameworks.

From: The Journal of Environmental Education | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT: In response to calls for discourse that builds on the substantive structure of environmental education in efforts to further the scope of the field, this article reexamines key principles of environmental education through the multidisciplinary lenses of critical pedagogy, the environmental justice movement, and more recent definitions of place-based education. Understanding that environmental education's key concepts of environment and environmental literacy are culturally speciflc--not universal--ideas opens the field for more diverse, locally appropriate, and ...

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