This collection traces the development and findings of curriculum studies of environmental education since the mid-1970s. Based on a virtual special issue of the Journal of Curriculum Studies, the volume identifies a series of curriculum challenges for and from environmental education. These include key questions in curriculum politics, planning and implementation, including which educative experiences should a curriculum foster and why; what the scope of a worthwhile curriculum should be and how it should be decided, organised and reworked; why distinctive curricula are provided to different groups of students; and how curriculum should best be enacted and evaluated?
The editor and contributors call for renewed attention to the possibilities for future directions in research, in light of previously published work and innovations in scholarship. They also offer critical commentary on curriculum, critique and crisis in environmental education, through new material and previous studies from the journal, by addressing three key themes: perspectives on curriculum and environment education; accounting for curriculum in environmental education; and changes in curriculum for environmental education.
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
Alan Reid is Editor of the research journal, Environmental Education Research. He conducts a wide range of studies focused on teachers thinking and practice in environmental and sustainability education, and associated traditions, capacities and issues in theory, research and practice. His recent work considers the history and possible futures of the field.
