- 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
Community Environmental Education
Community Environmental Education
- Chapter:
- (p.124) 13 Community Environmental Education
- Source:
- Urban Environmental Education Review
- Author(s):
Marianne E. Krasny
Mutizwa Mukute
Olivia M. Aguilar
Mapula Priscilla Masilela
Lausanne Olvitt
, Alex Russ, Marianne E. Krasny- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter examines the positive impact of community environmental education programs on both communities and the environment. Community environmental education uses environmental learning and action to foster community wellness in cities and other settings. Social learning encompasses a diversity of learning theories, all of which focus on learning through interaction with others. Two social learning frameworks useful in understanding community environmental education are communities of practice and cultural historical activity theory. The chapter applies community of practice theory to a youth program focusing on water-quality monitoring in the United States and cultural historical activity theory to two programs in South Africa, one involving organic agriculture and the other medical wastes. It highlights lessons that can be drawn from the South African cases and their relevance to community environmental education.
Keywords: community environmental education, environmental learning, community wellness, cities, social learning, cultural historical activity, water quality, organic agriculture, medical wastes
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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