{"id":6604,"date":"2016-03-09T07:59:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T07:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2016-03-09T07:59:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T07:59:43","slug":"5-perspectives-on-environmental-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/03\/09\/5-perspectives-on-environmental-education\/","title":{"rendered":"5 perspectives on environmental education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NAEE blog has a recent, and rather skeptical,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/naee.org.uk\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=491&amp;action=edit\">post<\/a> about a paper in EER. \u00a0This is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fraser J, Gupta R &amp; Krasny ME (2015) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em>Environmental Education Research<\/em><\/span> 21(5) 777-800<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I read it when it first emerged, and also wondered how anyone outwith the USA would read it. \u00a0It's all typically\u00a0American in both outlook, methodology and conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>I was, of course, disappointed that it did not draw on the insights that Steve Gough and I provided, back in 2003, into who got involved in environmental education and why. \u00a0This began:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>One thing that strikes us every time we attend NAAEE\u2019s annual conference is just what a broad church environmental education is \u2013 a church whose congregation and ministers represent many facets of what we might call environmental learning.\u00a0 This we define purposefully broadly as \u2018learning which accrues, or is derived, from an engagement with the environment or with environmental ideas\u2019.\u00a0 Such learning can be the outcome from formal or non-formal educational programmes in schools, and\/or communities, from designated environmental education interventions, or from personal or incidental learning where no teacher or instructor was involved.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The text\u00a0which followed set\u00a0out nine categories of interest which, we said, captured, in a tentative fashion, a range of foci and objectives of those who espouse and promote environmental learning. \u00a0Clearly, some saw this as rather tongue-in-cheek; others thought it lacking in respect towards our elders and betters \u2013 and a great movement. \u00a0The proof of a\u00a0paper is always in the reading, however. \u00a0The citation is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scott WAH &amp; Gough SR (2003) Categorizing Environmental Learning; <em>NAAEE Communicator<\/em> 33.1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NAEE blog has a recent, and rather skeptical,\u00a0post about a paper in EER. \u00a0This is: Fraser J, Gupta R &amp; Krasny ME (2015) Environmental Education Research 21(5) 777-800 I read it when it first emerged, and also wondered how...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}