Overview
- Sets the foundation for “Education for Environmental Citizenship”
- Relates environmental citizenship to knowledge, values, beliefs, attitudes
- Proposes a novel pedagogical approach
- Shows the link with responsible environmental behaviour, youth activism, education for sustainability and environmental education
Part of the book series: Environmental Discourses in Science Education (EDSE, volume 4)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Political, Economic and Societal Dimensions of Environmental Citizenship
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Environmental Citizenship as Psychological Construct
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Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability
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Environmental Citizenship in Educational Levels
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Keywords
- Sustainability / sustainable development
- Environmental citizenship
- Environmental citizen
- Environmental education
- Education for environmental citizenship
- Education for sustainability
- ENEC
- EU Horizon 2020
- EU-roadmap 2050
- European Network for Environmental Citizenship
- Environmental Behavior
- Environmental citizenship from educational perspective
- Open Access
About this book
This Open Access book is about the development of a common understanding of environmental citizenship. It conceptualizes and frames environmental citizenship taking an educational perspective. Organized in four complementary parts, the book first explains the political, economic and societal dimensions of the concept. Next, it examines environmental citizenship as a psychological concept with a specific focus on knowledge, values, beliefs and attitudes. It then explores environmental citizenship within the context of environmental education and education for sustainability. It elaborates responsible environmental behaviour, youth activism and education for sustainability through the lens of environmental citizenship. Finally, it discusses the concept within the context of different educational levels, such as primary and secondary education in formal and non-formal settings.
Environmental citizenship is a key factor in sustainability, green and cycle economy, and low-carbon society, and an important aspect in addressing global environmental problems. It has been an influential concept in many different arenas such as economy, policy, philosophy, and organizational marketing. In the field of education, the concept could be better exploited and established, however. Education and, especially, environmental discourses in science education have a great deal to contribute to the adoption and promotion of environmental citizenship.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pedro Reis is Sub-Director and Associate Professor in Science Education at the Instituto de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal). In addition to his PhD and MEd in education, he holds a BSc degree in biology. He has been involved in research, teacher training and curriculum development projects in Portugal, other European countries (supported by the European Commission), Africa (supported by the World Bank, Foundations and local Governments) and Latin America (supported by the Portuguese, the Brazilian and the Colombian Governments).
Demetra Paraskeva - Hadjichambi is head of Environmental Education Department of the Cyprus Centre for Environmental Research and Education (CYCERE). She is a biologist and holds a PhD in Environmental Education. She is working as a biology advisor in the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture. She participated in Biology Curriculum Committee in the framework of Cyprus Educational Reformation. She is a co-author of the Biology books in the Secondary Education of Cyprus. She has been a SCIENTIX Ambassador.
Jan Činčera works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He focuses on environmental education theory, research, and instructional strategies. His main interest lies in analyzing instructional strategies that help achieve the goals of environmental education. He isthe author of more than twenty studies published in international journals, the national guidelines for evaluation of environmental education programs and books focusing on environmental education and interpretation.
Niklas Gericke is Professor in Science Education, and Director of the SMEER (Science, Mathematics and Engineering Education Research) research Centre at Karlstad University in Sweden and visiting professor at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. His main research interests are biology education and sustainability education from conceptual, teaching as well as implementation perspectives. Other research interests include history and philosophy of science, models and representations in science, genetic education and textbook research.
Marie-Christine Knippels is an Assistant Professor in Science Education and has been head of the Biology education team at the Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is a biologist, developed the ‘yoyo-strategy’, and holds a PhD in Genetics Education. She completed a postdoc research project (NWO) at RISBO, Erasmus University Rotterdam and serves as a member of the Academic Board of ERIDOB. She led the EU-FP7 PARRISE-project, and was partner representative in the SYNENERGENE project.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education
Editors: Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis, Pedro Reis, Demetra Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, Jan Činčera, Jelle Boeve-de Pauw, Niklas Gericke, Marie-Christine Knippels
Series Title: Environmental Discourses in Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20249-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20248-4Published: 27 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20251-4Published: 30 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20249-1Published: 26 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2352-7307
Series E-ISSN: 2352-7315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 261
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Sustainable Development, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Environmental and Sustainability Education