Environmental Education as Critical Education: How Teachers and Students Handle the Challenge.

Kyburz-Graber, Regula

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ERIC Number: EJ636163

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Publication Date: 1999

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Environmental Education as Critical Education: How Teachers and Students Handle the Challenge.

Kyburz-Graber, Regula

Cambridge Journal of Education, v29 n3 p415-32 Nov 1999

Hypothesizes that environmental education is dominated by natural science thinking, while a link between environmental problems and critical thinking is unusual. Presents results of a participatory research approach with which teacher teams conducted classroom projects in five senior high schools and offered in-service seminars. Discusses features of a critical environmental education. (CMK)

Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Research, Environmental Education, High Schools, Participatory Research, School Activities, Secondary Education, Seminars, Student Participation, Team Teaching

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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