Critically analyzes some of the ways in which human subjectivity and agency are constructed in the contemporary discourse of environmental-education research. Suggests that methods of constructivist science-education research are not applicable to either subjects or subject matters of environmental education, and poststructuralist methodologies…

Explores chaos theory, the evolutionary capacity of chaotic systems, and the philosophical implications of chaos theory in general and for education. Compares the relationships between curriculum vision based on chaos theory and critical education for the environment. (Author/CCM)

Reports on research into the gaps and silences present in policies, pedagogy, and research in environmental education from a feminist perspective. (Author/CCM)

Reflects on a researcher's journey while embarking on a study that was political in its intentions and participatory in its orientation. Discusses a doctoral-research study that was a critical ethnography of a school and community engaged in a socially critical approach to environmental education. (Author/CCM)

Presents findings regarding human and vicarious influences in the lives of members of the North American Association for Environmental Education. Provides excerpts from 34 statements to illustrate the variety and richness of their narratives. (Author/CCM)

Identifies factors that foster transfer of environmental education to new situations. Suggests that work in environmental education should be relevant and started by exploring the previous knowledge of those who learn in order to carry out a new learning process valid for resolving authentic environmental problems. (Author/CCM)

Argues that the most effective way to move forward in the realm of environmental education may be to do so outside of the sanction of official policy. (Author/CCM)

Presents an account of the Environment and School Initiatives (ENSI) project. Outlines the philosophical basis of the project and explores case studies. Discusses some of the current issues in the field. (Author/CCM)

Describes a project to introduce waste-minimization education into four disciplinary-based courses. Provides a model for the introduction of the broader concepts of environmental education. (Author/CCM)

Describes two parallel studies conducted shortly before the Kyoto conference on climate change: (1) an examination of media portrayals of global warming and the certainty with which information was reported; and (2) a telephone survey to assess public knowledge and attitudes about global climate change. Findings do not support a hypothesis that…

Identifies elements of science education that are conducive to environmental awareness and congruent with reconstructive or revisionary postmodernism. Discusses the nature of and criticisms of modernism and the role of modern science in the environmental crisis. Identifies developments in postmodern science that supersede modern science.…

Focuses on the uneasy relationship between science and environmental education. Argues that science probably offers the strongest justification for the adoption of pro-environmental behaviors and policies, but that the relationship between environmentalism is strained by conflicts over fundamental values that are apparent in the interpretation of…

Uses a methodology for probing systems-thinking developed and used to investigate the way children (N=35) think about the natural environment. Findings suggest that eight-year-old children are capable of this type of thinking. (DDR)

Presents the results of an international comparative study into the status of environmental education. Concludes that the current provisions for environmental education for primary children in Nigeria are insufficient for the development of national programs. Contains 17 references. (DDR)

Reviews some problems with the notion of sustainable development, as a policy, as the touchstone of environmental education, and explores understanding sustainability as a frame of mind. At the heart of this interpretation of sustainability lies the notion of a right relationship with nature which conditions attitudes towards the environment and a…