Lifelong Learning: Towards a Theory of Practice for Formal and Non-formal Environmental Education and Training
Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: The starting point of the paper is that practitioners of all kinds concerned with lifelong learning in environmental education have theories of teaching, learning, and action. These they employ under sets of constraints which are likely to be unique to their own individual contexts. An approach is proposed which recognises the significance of such theories and constraints, and uses them as a starting point for learning. Central to the argu-ment is the proposition that environmental learning is possible only if all absolute criteria for judging educational or environ-mental worth are regarded as problematic. Résumé Le document part de la prémisse que les praticiens de tout genre préoccupés par l’apprentissage continu en éducation environnementale ont des théories sur l’enseignement,
Authors: Stephen Gough, Kim Walker, William Scott
Institutions: University of Bath, George Washington University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2101084098