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Environmental Education as Educational Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Ian Robottom
Ian Robottom
Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Deakin University, Geelong 3217, Australia.
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Ten years on from the landmark environmental education conference at Tbilisi, it is salutary to reflect on the extent to which some of the distinguishing characteristics espoused in the nineteen-seventies are manifest in environmental education of the 'eighties. The critical problem-solving interest of environmental education recommended in the literature of the 'seventies was consistent with the social/political concerns of the world community at the time—concerns to which the UNESCO environmental education programme was a response. However, this critical problem-solving interest is not commonplace in schools, and still represents a serious challenge to the existing patterns of schooling. Consequently the position that environmental education should entail widespread educational reform is nowadays becoming stronger and more evident.

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Main Papers
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1987 , pp. 197 - 200
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1987

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