Anthropology of Environmental Education
( Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World )
Publication series ：Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World
Author： Helen Kopnina (Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies Amsterdam The Netherlands)
Publisher： Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781614701545
Subject： Q988 human ecology
Keyword： Environment
Language： ENG
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Description
This book aims to substantiate the growing body of research of socio-cultural contexts in which environmental education, formal or informal, take place. Innovation in environmental education that takes local contexts into account is necessary, in terms of both recognising global and historical forces that lead to environmental degradation and social and technological changes that could potentially provide solutions to environmental problems. Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history, including climate change, deforestation, desertification and the rapid extinction of species of plants and animals. As with many social concerns and issues, the education system is widely seen as the appropriate vehicle for wide scale social reform. Environmental education is becoming increasingly important due to a number of changes in society.