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Why not education for the environment?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

I.M. Robottom
I.M. Robottom*
Affiliation:
Deakin University, Geelong 3127
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At the inaugural national conference of the Australian Association for Environmental Education in Adelaide (October, 1980), it was clear that multiple interpretations existed of the key descriptor ‘environmental education’. At that conference, at earlier international conferences (e.g., Tbilisi, 1977) and in recent Australian curriculum materials (e.g., The Curriculum Development Centre's (CDC's) Environmental Education Project), the terms education about the environment, education in the environment, and education for the environment were and have been used to capture the various interpretations of environmental education. An explication of these terms is offered in the Environmental Education Project (CDC, 1981), and in Fensham (1979).

These terms seems to embrace the various facets to emerge in discourse about environmental education — they can, perhaps, be taken as representing the accepted dimensions of environmental education.

Type
Research Article
Information
Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 1984 , pp. 11 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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