Environmental Education
| PUBLISHER | Routledge (12/16/2016) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this rapidly growing subject and its multidisciplinary corpus of scholarly literature, 'Environmental Education' is a new title from the acclaimed Routledge series, Critical Concepts in the Environment. Edited by two of the field's leading scholars, this Major Works collection embraces a wide variety of methodological traditions to bring together in four volumes the foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship. The collection enables users to access--and to make sense of--the most important findings and theories that have been developed by environmental education research. It provides a synoptic view of all the key issues, current debates, and controversies.
'Environmental Education' is fully indexed and includes comprehensive introductions, newly written by the editors, which place the collected materials in their historical and intellectual context. It is an essential reference collection and is destined to be valued by scholars and students--as well as policy-makers and practitioners--as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
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Environmental Education is edited by Alan Reid (Monash University), editor of Environmental Education Research, and Justin Dillon (University of Bristol), co-editor of the International Journal of Science Education and Past President of the European Science Education Research Association.
Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this rapidly growing subject and its multidisciplinary corpus of scholarly literature, 'Environmental Education' is a new title from the acclaimed Routledge series, Critical Concepts in the Environment. Edited by two of the field's leading scholars, this Major Works collection embraces a wide variety of methodological traditions to bring together in four volumes the foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship. The collection enables users to access--and to make sense of--the most important findings and theories that have been developed by environmental education research. It provides a synoptic view of all the key issues, current debates, and controversies.
'Environmental Education' is fully indexed and includes comprehensive introductions, newly written by the editors, which place the collected materials in their historical and intellectual context. It is an essential reference collection and is destined to be valued by scholars and students--as well as policy-makers and practitioners--as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
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Environmental Education is edited by Alan Reid (Monash University), editor of Environmental Education Research, and Justin Dillon (University of Bristol), co-editor of the International Journal of Science Education and Past President of the European Science Education Research Association.
Bjarne Bruun Jensen is Professor in the Department of Curriculum Research at the Danish University of Education and directs the Research Programme on Environmental and Health Education. His research interests are in action-oriented health and environmental education; pupilsa (TM) concepts of health, inequality in health and action for health, and children as catalysts of social change. He is member of the editorial board of Environmental Education Research and Health Promotion International, and National Coordinator for the Danish network of health promoting schools. He also works as a consultant for WHO within the fields of Health Education and Health Promoting Schools.
Jutta Nikel is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment, at the University of Bath. Her research interests focus on empirical and theoretical research regarding environmental education and education for sustainable development, and teachersa (TM) thinking and practice in these areas. Her recent work for the Royal Academy of Engineering focused on how sustainability issuesare integrated into undergraduate engineering education. Her current work examines the contribution of Education for Sustainable Development for improving quality in education in low income countries
Venka Simovska, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Health Education and Health Promotion at the Department of Curriculum Research at the Danish University of Education, and a member of the Research Programme for Environmental and Health Education. She is an academic coordinator of one of the modules of the Masters programme in health education and health promotion, and she teaches and supervises masters and doctoral students. Venka has extensive experience in research related to school-based projects, including the European Network of Health Promoting Schools. Her research interests revolve around issues relating to health, young people and teaching/learning processes in the area of health education and promotion. In particular, her research focuses on student participation and empowerment in learning.
Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education at King's College London, UK.
Contributors: Christopher Winch, Paul Black, Alan Cribb, Sharon Gewirtz, Bob Burstow, Gerard Lum, Pat Mahony, Louise Archer, Alex Manning, Peter Kutnick, Jill Hohenstein, Heather King, Jeremy Burke, Simon Coffey, Jeremy Hodgen, Chris Harrison, Chris Abbott, Roxy Harris, Constant Leung, Jenny Driscoll, Bethan Marshall, Mike Askew, Ann-Marie Brandom, Andrew Wright, Mike Poole, Peter Duncan, Melissa Glackin, Ian Stevenson, Simon Gibbons, Jane Jones, Philip Adey