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Categorising Tertiary Environmental Education In Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Laurie Cosgrove  and
Ian Thomas
Laurie Cosgrove
Affiliation:
Department of Planning, Policy and Landscape, RMIT, Melbourne
Ian Thomas
Affiliation:
Department of Planning, Policy and Landscape, RMIT, Melbourne
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Abstract

The diversity of environmental courses at tertiary level continues to increase. Following from a survey of these courses in the early 1990s the current study revisited the courses to investigate their characteristics. In 1993 tertiary courses with ‘environment’ in their title were surveyed through a postal questionnaire to gain an understanding of their philosophy and approach to teaching in the environmental field, of the capabilities the courses sought to assist the graduates to develop and of the extent to which graduates were being employed. The paper presents and discusses the results of this survey and offers suggestions about enhancing the role of environmental education in tertiary institutions.

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General Section
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Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 12 , 1996 , pp. 27 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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