Curriculum and Environmental Education : Perspectives, Priorities and Challenges (Paperback)

Preface 1.Curriculum and environmental education: perspectives, priorities and challenges 2. A non-technical introduction to curriculum challenges for and from environmental education 3. How to understand curriculum challenges for and from environmental education Part I: Perspectives on Curriculum and Environment Education 4. Environmental education and the issue of nature 5. ‘Littered with literacy’: an ecopedagogical reflection on whole language, pedocentrism and the necessity of refusal 6. From epistemology to ecopolitics: renewing a paradigm for curriculum 7. Sustainability and the learning virtues 8. Ideology, political education and teacher education: matching paradigms and models 9. Ecological consciousness and curriculum Part II: Accounting for Curriculum in Environmental Education 10. Environmental education and the secondary school curriculum 11. Subjects for Study: Aspects of a Social History of Curriculum 12. Greening the future for education: changing curriculum content and school organization 13. Globalization and environmental education: looking beyond sustainable development 14. Environmental Studies Courses in Colleges of Education 15. Environment in the curriculum: representation and development in the Scottish physical and social sciences Part III: Changes in Curriculum for Environmental Education 16. Environmental and health education viewed from an action-oriented perspective: a case from Denmark 17. Implementing curriculum guidance on environmental education: the importance of teachers’ beliefs 18. Curriculum change and climate change: Inside outside pressures in higher education 19. Towards a socially critical environmental education: water quality studies in a coastal school 20. Teacher receptivity to curriculum change in the implementation stage: the case of environmental education in Hong Kong 21. Complementary curriculum: the work of ecologically minded teachers Conclusion: Curriculum, critique and crisis in environmental education