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Mogensen, Finn; Schnack, Karsten – Environmental Education Research, 2010
Action competence has been a key concept in educational circles in Denmark since the 1980s. This paper explores the relationship between the action competence approach and recent discourses of education for sustainable development (ESD), competence and quality criteria. First we argue that action competence is an educational ideal, referring to…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values
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Korsgaard, Ove – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2006
Rousseau's philosophy of education is contained not only in "Emile" (1762), but also in "The Government of Poland" (1772). In each of them he emphasises different aspects of education: How to be a human being? And: How to be a citizen? The main theme investigated by Rousseau in "The Government of Poland", is how a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Self Determination
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Payne, Phillip G. – Environmental Education Research, 2010
This response article written from "outside" the Swedish-Danish contexts of this special issue considers how we might highlight and make additional ecocentric meaning of some of the terms most frequently used in this collection. In the first instance my focus is on "meaning" but this is expanded to include other terms such as…
Descriptors: Democracy, Ecology, Climate, Sustainable Development