Traditions and new niches: An overview of environmental education curriculum and learning research

Lotz-Sisitka, Heila; Fien, John; Ketlhoilwe, Mphemelang

Title: Traditions and new niches: An overview of environmental education curriculum and learning research
Creator: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
Creator: Fien, John
Creator: Ketlhoilwe, Mphemelang
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2013
Date: 2013
Type: text
Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437323
Identifier: vital:73370
Identifier: ISBN 9780203813331
Identifier: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203813331-26/traditions-new-niches-heila-lotz-sisitka-john-fien-mphemelang-ketlhoilwe
Description: In this chapter we consider the traditions of environmental ed-ucation curriculum and learning research, their relationship to wider education research traditions, and point to new niches for curriculum and learning research, as opened up (in part) 1 through the contributions in this section of the IRHEE. The chapter points to the fact that environmental education re-search seems to primarily be seeking to fulfill a “cultural inno-vation role” in the wider education research landscape, carving out niches and spaces that speak to educational innova-tion/transformation and change. This may in part be due to its “youthfulness” within the more established and traditional edu-cation research landscape and trajectory, but also to its trans-formative intent. Environmental education researchers such as Stevenson (2007) continue to lament the “marginal” or “perma-nently peripheral” status of environmental education and envi-ronmental education research, noting that it is almost impossi-ble to situate effectively within modernist educational para-digms oriented mostly toward reproduction of existing cultures and practices, traditions which continue to characterize formal education institutional settings.
Format: 12 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Relation: Lotz-Sisitka, H., Fien, J. and Ketlhoilwe, M., 2013. Traditions and new niches: An overview of environmental education curriculum and learning research. International handbook of research on environmental education, pp.194-205
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