{"id":7343,"date":"2018-10-31T07:58:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2018-11-09T15:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T15:50:26","slug":"in-about-and-for-arthur-lucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/10\/31\/in-about-and-for-arthur-lucas\/","title":{"rendered":"In about and for Arthur Lucas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Lucas wrote a lot about environmental education in the 1970s and 80s in an attempt to clarify and make sense of the concept. \u00a0In particular, he wrote about <em>in \/ about \/ for \/ etc<\/em>. \u00a0I say, etc, purposefully as the following extract from his writings show:<\/p>\n<p>\"... uses of the term environmental education can be classified into\u00a0education <em>about<\/em> the\u00a0environment, education <em>for<\/em>\u00a0(the preservation of) the\u00a0environment, education\u00a0<em>in<\/em> the\u00a0environment, and the classes formed by the combinations\u00a0<em>about\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>for, about\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>in, <\/em>and<em> for <\/em>and<em> in. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Education\u00a0<em>about\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0environment, which is concerned with providing cognitive understanding including the development of skills necessary to obtain this understanding, and education\u00a0<em>for<\/em> the environment, which is directed environmental preservation, or preservation for particular purposes, are characterised by their aims; education\u00a0<em>in\u00a0<\/em>the environment ... is characterised by a technique of instruction.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<em>in<\/em> case, environment usually means the world outside the classroom, and in other usages it refers to the biophysical and\/or social context in which groups of people ... exist ... .\"<\/p>\n<p>I have extracted this text from John F Disinger's 1983\/1997 paper,\u00a0<em>Environmental Education's Definitional Problem\u00a0<\/em>as I have misplaced the Lucas original.<\/p>\n<p>The subtleties of this differentiation by Lucas between\u00a0<em>for<\/em> and\u00a0<em>about<\/em>\u00a0(on the one hand) and\u00a0<em>in <\/em>(on the other),\u00a0<em>a<\/em>re often lost in usage or translation to the detriment of the argument.<\/p>\n<p>Thus it is that, whilst\u00a0combinations of\u00a0<em>about\u00a0<\/em>\/\u00a0<em>in, <\/em>and<em> for <\/em>\/<em> in,\u00a0<\/em>are particularly valuable because of the context provided by\u00a0<em>in<\/em>, often (but not always) being better than <em>about<\/em> or\u00a0<em>for<\/em> on their own,\u00a0just being\u00a0<em>in<\/em> is of little environmental education value without aims associated with\u00a0<em>about<\/em> or\u00a0<em>for.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is what I've been trying to say for the last few days as I commented on the recent King's College research. \u00a0Arthur Lucas did it better; but enough of prepositions for one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Lucas wrote a lot about environmental education in the 1970s and 80s in an attempt to clarify and make sense of the concept. \u00a0In particular, he wrote about in \/ about \/ for \/ etc. \u00a0I say, etc, purposefully...<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343","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=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}