- 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
Adult Education
Adult Education
- Chapter:
- (p.175) 18 Adult Education
- Source:
- Urban Environmental Education Review
- Author(s):
Philip Silva
Shelby Gull Laird
, Alex Russ, Marianne E. Krasny- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter examines opportunities for developing urban environmental education experiences for adults. It first considers the core ideas of three influential adult education scholars—Paulo Freire, Malcolm Knowles, and Jane Vella—before describing two cases of adult environmental education in cities, one in New York City and one in London. It then reviews theory and practice through the binary categories of “emancipatory” versus “instrumental” environmental education, both of which have conceptual roots in the work of Freire, Knowles, and Vella, among others. It also explains how, through the use of andragogic methods such as relationship building, engagement in action, and a focus on the needs of the learner, adult urban environmental education initiatives can help promote environmental literacy and action.
Keywords: urban environmental education, adult education, Paulo Freire, Malcolm Knowles, Jane Vella, cities, emancipatory environmental education, instrumental environmental education, relationship building, environmental literacy
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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