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50 Years of ERIC
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Kentish, Barry; Robottom, Ian – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2008
In Australia there has been a rapid move to an acceptance of education for sustainability as mainstream environmental education. We argue that education for sustainability, with its platform of assisting individuals in making apparently informed decisions to create a more sustainable world, is at some distance from promoting more ethically-based…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Caring, Sustainable Development
Robottom, Ian – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2005
The field of research in environmental education has experienced several changes in orientation in its first 25 or so years. In the period of the 70s and 80s, the most visible approach to environmental education research was clearly applied science in nature. From the late 80s/early 90s there has been a period of intense debate about research in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Environmental Research, Context Effect
Robottom, Ian; Sauvee, Lucie – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2003
We reflect on methodological issues arising in two of our own research projects as a form of practice, as a way of engaging in a praxis of project research. The projects chosen for this purpose are themselves concerned with teacher education and curriculum development in environmental education: they include participatory "reflective practice"…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Participatory Research, Informal Education, Environmental Education
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Robottom, Ian; Kyburz-Graber, Regula – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2000
Considers two international research projects in environmental education. Draws attention to the interplay of contextuality and universality and the role of participatory research in this tension. (Contains 18 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education