The fundamental importance of teaching
Teachers are the builders of the nation, and we can all probably recall a favourite, and/or respected, builder. But what made them so? Builder of the nation By Greg Hunt …
On nearly joining a food chain – as the main course; Val Plumwood and Environmental philosophy
Val Plumwood survived an encounter with a crocodile that was intent on lunch. In an amazingly dispassionate manner, she discusses what and how she was thinking even as the crocodile …
Education and communication are different!
I was a judge for the Education category of the Banksia Awards for a year or two, a few years ago. I had a growing sense of disquiet about the …
Teaching about values? Moral Dilemmas are a brilliant way to promote critical analysis of the values positions that we hold. Read on …
Moral dilemmas: an approach for dealing with environmental issues in the classroom What are Moral Dilemmas? Environmental education is primarily about analysing attitudes and taking appropriate …
Walking the talk; AAEE has been doing it for years.
This is my history of environmental education in Australia to put with the other histories. I’ll defend this one though as for a while I had a ringside seat, I knew quite a few of the actors and was occasionally also inthe ring.
Environment and School Initiatives, a project of the OECD, taught us quite a lot, yes quite a lot.
Action research applied to direct observation had the potential to teach us a lot about environmental education and it seems, sex education. Our gathering of international practitioners at an action research workshop in Frascati finally solved the mystery of extreme litter – and the thesis fitted the observations comprehensively.
Waterkeepers Australia is part of the international waterway protection community
Waterkeepers Australia was established to support formally-consituted community advocate organisations use environment and planning laws to care for and protect their waterways. This is how and why Waterkeepers Australia caame into being.
Australia was an international leader in environmental education, says OECD
Australia was one of the 19 member countries in the OECD project Environent and School Initiatives for which I was our National Coordinator. Here is the report of the In-Depth Study team that looked at policy and programs in environmental education in four Australian states.
Get out often – the importance of being in the environment, a paper given to a VOEA conference
If you are confident in the bush you’ll more likely go there, you’ll want it to be there and so you’re likely to care for and protect it. This is education FOR the environment. I present some analyses regarding our curent relationship with the environment and what we can do to change.
Where’s our fair share of water – that’s all the Yarriamback Creekkeeper is asking.
The links between environmental education and community are so interchangeable that can be the other. This article, which appeared in Education Quarterly, describes how learning about a creek is much about citizenship education as it is about wate flows and biodiversity.