{"id":7841,"date":"2021-01-08T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T09:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7841"},"modified":"2021-01-08T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T09:02:46","slug":"25-years-of-eer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2021\/01\/08\/25-years-of-eer\/","title":{"rendered":"25 years of Environmental Education Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

In what will be my last piece of writing for Environmental Education Research<\/em> I have just written an editorial which was published on-line yesterday. \u00a0You can access it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Titled, 25 years on: looking back at environmental education research<\/em>, it\u00a0is a personal reflection on the first 25\u2009<\/b>years of the journal.\u00a0\u00a0The paper begins in the 1990s with the ideas behind the need for a new journal and explores the journal\u2019s early years as it established itself with Chris Oulton and myself as editors.<\/p>\n

It then looks at two quite different papers from Volume 1 of the journal that identified issues that remain pertinent today, albeit in the very changed social context that we now experience where rapid climate change demands national and international responses from governments and educators.<\/p>\n

The paper then draws on three recent studies published in Environmental Education Research<\/i> to examine what research might now focus on. \u00a0It ends with a personal reflection on how all those involved in the journal are bound together by more than the professional imperative to publish; that is, by a need to address great questions of our time that are now much more urgent than they were when Environmental Education Research<\/i> was started, or when the modern environmental movement and environmental education as we know it today began.<\/p>\n

The papers examined are:<\/p>\n