Reviews contemporary environmental education in Uganda. Presents a new approach that emphasizes the adoption of multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, people-centered, and participatory programs in environmental concerns. Embraces the diversity of the biophysical, social, and economic environments and is closely associated with permanent…

Argues that assumptions that environmental education is a desirable objective that needs to be implemented as widely and as urgently as possible cannot be taken for granted in South Africa. Examines four responses to the dominant Western/Northern interpretation of environmental education and argues in favor of one that moves beyond tensions…