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Responding to growing interest in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and global concern over climate change, this volume provides an analysis of how our understanding of the relationship between environment and education has evolved during the past fifty years.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introducing 50 years of Education and Learning for the Environment and Sustainable Futures; Chapter 2. Education and the environment in the 1970s: Inform and Experience; Chapter 3. Education and the environment in the 1980s: Investigate and Solve; Chapter 4. Education and the environment in the 1990s: Rethink and Engage; Chapter 5. Education and the environment in the 2000s: Connect and Change; Chapter 6. Education and the environment in the 2010s: Reframe and Transform Futures; Chapter 7. Education and the environment in the 2020s: Regenerate and transition; Chapter 8. Facing the Future: Creating Learning Landscapes for Environment and Sustainability
About the author
Thomas Macintyre is a researcher in the field of education and sustainability, specialising in transformative and participatory learning.
Daniella Tilbury is an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, a European Commission advisor on learning for the Green Transition and the UK government’s focal point at the UN Economic Commission for Europe on matters of education and environment.
Arjen Wals is a professor of Transformative Learning for Socio-Ecological Sustainability at Wageningen University where he also holds the UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development.
Summary
Responding to growing interest in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and global concern over climate change, this volume provides an analysis of how our understanding of the relationship between environment and education has evolved during the past fifty years.
