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Empirical-Analytical Methodological Research in Environmental Education: Response to a Negative Trend in Methodological and Ideological Discussions
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Connell, Sharon – Environmental Education Research, 2006
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to methodological discourse about research approaches to environmental education. More specifically, the paper explores the current status of the "empirical-analytical methodology" and its "positivist" (traditional- and post-positivist) ideologies, in environmental education research through the critical…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Environmental Education, Criticism, Role of Education
Students as Catalysts of Environmental Change: A Framework for Researching Intergenerational Influence through Environmental Education
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Ballantyne, Roy; Connell, Sharon; Fien, John – Environmental Education Research, 2006
Many environmental problems are desperately in need of attention. Educating both adults and young people is seen as part of the solution to such problems. Given this situation, and the already considerable investment in environmental education in schools, the notion of encouraging students to initiate environmental discussions with adults at home…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Program Development, Educational Research, Intergenerational Programs
Students as Catalysts of Environmental Change: A Framework for Researching Intergenerational Influence through Environmental Education.
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Ballantyne, Roy; Connell, Sharon; Fien, John – Environmental Education Research, 1998
Reviews education and social-science literature concerning intergenerational influence and outlines an approach to guide future efforts in research and program development aimed at encouraging students to act as catalysts of environmental communication and learning beyond school boundaries. Contains 115 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Empirical-Analytical Methodological Research in Environmental Education: Response To a Negative Trend in Methodological and Ideological Discussions.
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Connell, Sharon – Environmental Education Research, 1997
Explores the current status of the empirical-analytical methodology and its "positivist" ideologies in environmental education research through the critical analysis of three criticisms outlined in an article by Robottom and Hart. Suggests that the criticisms misrepresent empirical-analytical methodology in their dismissal of it as behaviorist…
Descriptors: Criticism, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Evaluation Methods