Anthropology of Environmental Education

Helen Kopnina (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2013
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-62808-247-0 (ISBN)

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This book aims to substantiate the growing body of research of socio-cultural contexts in which environmental education, formal or informal, take place. Innovation in environmental education that takes local contexts into account is necessary, in terms of both recognising global and historical forces that lead to environmental degradation and social and technological changes that could potentially provide solutions to environmental problems. Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history, including climate change, deforestation, desertification and the rapid extinction of species of plants and animals. As with many social concerns and issues, the education system is widely seen as the appropriate vehicle for wide scale social reform. Environmental education is becoming increasingly important due to a number of changes in society.

Introduction; Tales Best Told Out of School: Traditional Life-Skills Education Meets Modern Science Education; Circles of Value: Integrating Maya Environmental Knowledge into Belizean Shools; Learning to Protect: Environmental Education in a South Indian Tiger Reserve; The Application of Cognitive Ethnobiology to Environmental Education; Hobbyists in the Role of Environmental Educator: The Case of Amateur Astronomy Clubs; Folk Knowledge, Interactive Learning, & Education: Community-Based Ecotourism in the Amazon; Seeing Nature: Images of Nature Presented to Dutch Pre-School Children as Part of Environmental Education Programs; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2013
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	298 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
ISBN-10	1-62808-247-X / 162808247X
ISBN-13	978-1-62808-247-0 / 9781628082470
Zustand	Neuware