Learning from Bad Practice in Environmental and Sustainability Education

Learning from Bad Practice in Environmental and Sustainability Education illuminates the notion of bad practice from the perspective of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) and how it is possible to learn from it in order to avoid the relentless pitfalls and blind spots that are part of any educational field. Combining lessons from Danish and South Korean NGOs involved in both formal and non-formal ESE with emerging theoretical perspectives on education, the important question is: Why do practitioners, educators and researchers have such a hard time dealing with the challenges of bad practice and is it possible to understand bad practice as not only something that mars the educational purpose of ESE, but also as something that at the same time protects the very ideals we find in the fields. Through empirical analysis, and theoretical perspectives from Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Slavoj Zizek, Learning from Bad Practice in Environmental and Sustainability Education argues how we, as teachers, practitioners and researchers can learn from bad practice and move beyond the comfortable position of finger pointing and push for more genuine good practice.

List of contents

Acknowledgments - Bad Practice? - Danish and South Korean Environmental and Climate Change NGOs - Why Educators Engage with Non-Formal ESE - The Significance of ESE Ideals - Understanding Fields of Learning - New Perspectives on Bad Practice - Learning from Bad Practice.

Product details

• Authors: Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.10.2018
• EAN: 9781433131646
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-3164-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 271 g
• Series: [Re]thinking Environmental Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Bode, Sustainability, Education, Constance, Practice, Sarah, Jonas, EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Leadership, Learning, Russell, Justin, Moral and social purpose of education, environmental, Curriculum planning & development, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational systems and structures, Educational strategies and policy, Curriculum planning and development, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, Dillon, Andreasen, Lysgaard