Environmental Education in the 21st Century: Theory, Practice, Progress and Promise

by Joy A. Palmer

Book Overview

Environmental education is a field characterised by a paradox. Few would doubt the urgency and importance of learning to live in sustainable ways, but environmental education holds nowhere near the priority position in formal schooling around the world that this would suggest. This text sets out to find out why this is so. It is divided into six parts:
Part 1 is a concise history of the development of environmental education from an international...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415131979
• ISBN13: 9780415131971
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"