Popular and informal environmental education: the need for more research in an "emerging" field of practice

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

Environmental education that fosters meaningful community participation and learning has been considered a requisite to sustaining our human and natural environments in many of the global conferences, agreements, declarations and charters since the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm. Despite this growing consensus there is a small amount of published research in Australia in this field of practice we have decided to call popular and informal environmental education - education that often involves adults in social action. The authors argue, however, that there is no shortage of educational practice that can be described as popular and informal environmental education. The autors propose a typology that will assist in defining this field of practice and establish theoretical links with the emerging field of environmental adult education.

Object Details

• ISSN: 0177-4166
• Extent: Seite(n): 35-50
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: REPORT - Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung, 32(2)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Bildung und Erziehung ; Ökologie ; Bildungswesen quartärer Bereich, Berufsbildung ; Ökologie und Umwelt ; Bildung ; Erwachsenenbildung ; Ökologie ; Umwelt ; Australien ; Handlung ; Typologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Guevara, Roberto ; Whelan, James ; Flowers, Rick
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Deutschland
• (when): 2009

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3278/REP0902W036
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-52882-7
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST