Environmental and Geographic Education for Sustainability Cultural Contexts

About this book

Geography, environment, sustainability, culture and education standing alone or in any combination, provide the ingredients for a variety of stews. They are all difficult to define and they generate endless debates for theoreticians and practitioners about their meaning and significance. The editors have divided the chapters that follow into two parts in an effort to unit these diverse disciplines. Part 1 is concerned with cultural foundations and curriculum issues related to geographical and environmental education for sustainability. The second Part comprises a series of chapters presenting education for sustainability in the contexts of national cultures.

Contents

Geography, Environment, Sustainability, Culture and Education; Culturing Sustainability: Towards Frameworks of Understanding; Culture and Contexts; Childhood, Peer Culture and Environmental Learning; Orientations and Approaches to Environmental and Geographical Education for Sustainability; Approaches to Learning and Teaching Environmental and Geographical Education for Sustainability; 'Whole School' Approaches to Sustainability; Beyond the Separate Subjects: Towards a Post-Disciplinary Approach to Environmental Education; Education for Sustainability: Schools and their Communities; Eco-Schools and Green Schools; Fieldwork and Outdoor Education for Environmental and Geographical Education for Sustainability; New Technologies: Contributing to New Concepts and Cultures of Curriculum and Sustainability; Approaches to Environmental and Geographical Education for Sustainability in Finland; Australia Chr(45) Environmental Education and Cultural Change in a Land of 'Plenty'; Environmental and Geographical Education for Sustainability in Hong Kong and China: Trends and Environmental Education for Sustainability in Korea; Culturing Education for Sustainability: Experience in Arctic Canada; Approaches to Environmental and Geographical Education for Sustainability in the United States; Approaches to Environmental Education for Sustainability in India; Approaches to Environmental and Geographical Education for Sustainability in Brazil; Enabling Environmental and Sustainability Education in South Africa's National Curriculum: Context, Culture and Learner Aspirations for Agency; Index.

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