Environmental Education: arguing the case for multiple approaches

Author: Scott William   Oulton Christopher  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 1465-3400

Source: Educational Studies, Vol.25, Iss.1, 1999-03, pp. : 89-97

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Abstract

This paper develops existing arguments about the need to rethink ways in which environmental education is conceptualised, interpreted and enacted by schools, teachers and students working within their communities. In doing this, it critiques what it sees as the narrowing and constraining influence that socially critical theory has exerted over the field, and calls for multiple approaches, carefully and communally deliberated on, in order to deliver the (environmental) educational goals deemed appropriate and necessary by schools and communities. Such an approach, it is argued, will likely be cross-disciplinary and multi-faceted in that it will be informed by a combination of traditions and ideological persuasions which together will offer more than any one of them could alone.