- Title Pages
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Advancing Urbanization -
2 Sustainable Cities -
3 Four Asian Tigers -
4 Cities as Opportunities -
5 Critical Environmental Education -
6 Environmental Justice -
7 Sense of Place -
8 Climate Change Education -
9 Community Assets -
10 Trust and Collaborative Governance -
11 Environmental Governance -
12 Nonformal Educational Settings -
13 Community Environmental Education -
14 School Partnerships -
15 Sustainable Campuses -
16 Early Childhood -
17 Positive Youth Development -
18 Adult Education -
19 Intergenerational Education -
20 Inclusive Education -
21 Educator Professional Development -
22 Cities as Classrooms -
23 Environmental Arts -
24 Adventure Education -
25 Urban Agriculture -
26 Ecological Restoration -
27 Green Infrastructure -
28 Urban Digital Storytelling -
29 Participatory Urban Planning -
30 Educational Trends - Afterword
- Contributors
- Index
Critical Environmental Education
Critical Environmental Education
- Chapter:
- (p.51) 5 Critical Environmental Education
- Source:
- Urban Environmental Education Review
- Author(s):
Robert B. Stevenson
Arjen E. J. Wals
Joe E. Heimlich
Ellen Field
, Alex Russ, Marianne E. Krasny- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter considers an alternative socially critical perspective on environmental education, the emphasis of which is on the influence of cultural norms and structural features of society on people's environmental actions and the need for participatory approaches that engage citizens in creating and determining appropriate actions to realize their own vision of a sustainable urban environment. It describes emerging learning spaces, also known as “ecologies of learning,” that engage young and old urban citizens in participatory collaborative activities such as community gardening, critical place-based education in urban schools, and social media environmental interest networks. After providing a brief history of environmental education, the chapter discusses communicating information about and solving environmental problems. It then examines critical thinking about issues of quality of life and human-nature interrelationships before concluding with an overview of how to develop capacity for integrating environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable development.
Keywords: environmental education, learning, community gardening, place-based education, urban schools, social media, environmental problems, quality of life, sustainable development
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- Title Pages
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 Advancing Urbanization -
2 Sustainable Cities -
3 Four Asian Tigers -
4 Cities as Opportunities -
5 Critical Environmental Education -
6 Environmental Justice -
7 Sense of Place -
8 Climate Change Education -
9 Community Assets -
10 Trust and Collaborative Governance -
11 Environmental Governance -
12 Nonformal Educational Settings -
13 Community Environmental Education -
14 School Partnerships -
15 Sustainable Campuses -
16 Early Childhood -
17 Positive Youth Development -
18 Adult Education -
19 Intergenerational Education -
20 Inclusive Education -
21 Educator Professional Development -
22 Cities as Classrooms -
23 Environmental Arts -
24 Adventure Education -
25 Urban Agriculture -
26 Ecological Restoration -
27 Green Infrastructure -
28 Urban Digital Storytelling -
29 Participatory Urban Planning -
30 Educational Trends - Afterword
- Contributors
- Index