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Problems, Priorities, and Prospects, in Environmental Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Christopher C. Park
Christopher C. Park
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Lecturer in Geography, University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YR, England, UK.
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Environmental education has shown lamentable inertia in scarcely capitalizing on the growth of interest in environmental issues since the 1960s. The present paper explores the general factors contributing to this, which include the failure of environmentalism as a movement to act as a catalyst for environmental education, and the problems of attempting to appeal to a wide audience of both specialists and non-specialists who each expect different things of environmental education. To date, education about the environment and education from the environment have been dominant, at the expense of education for the environment; and further problems arise in establishing both an educational niche and disciplinary horizons for the subject in order to increase its appeal to educational planners.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Summer 1983 , pp. 133 - 139
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1983

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