Overview
- Combines the perspectives of education theorists, environmental and sustainability education researchers
- Links theory and practice of outdoor environmental education programs
- Presents diverse multicultural points of view
Part of the book series: International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education (IEOEE, volume 12)
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About this book
This edited volume explores the role of outdoor environmental education in the contemporary society. It identifies some of the opportunities and challenges of this educational area, particularly in the growing digitalization of the contemporary society and the distancing between people and nature. Furthermore, it seeks to answer why outdoor environmental education is essential for developing students’ environmental citizenship competencies or developing their relationship with nature. The book also introduces the various approaches existing in the field, discusses their relevance, and highlights their unique features.
The book finishes with an overview of the practice of outdoor environmental education in selected countries from North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Keywords
- Outdoor environmental education programs
- Ethical aspects of outdoor environmental education
- Effectiveness of outdoor environmental education
- Outdoor environmental education case study from United States
- Outdoor environmental education case study from Czech Republic
- Outdoor environmental education case study from Taiwan
- Outdoor environmental education case study from Canada
- Earth education
- Place-based education
- Wild pedagogies
- Forest education
- Children Nature
- Environmental interpretation
- Pedagogical approaches in environmental education
- Nature connectedness in environmental education
- Learning outcomes in outdoor environmental education
- Outdoor environmental education and environmental citizenship
- Policy related to outdoor environmental education
Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Outdoor Environmental Education in the Contemporary World
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Approaches to Outdoor Environmental Education
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Outdoor Environmental Education Programs as a Worldwide Phenomenon
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jan Činčera is an associate professor at the Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He focuses on instructional strategies that help achieve the goals of environmental education. He has authored more than twenty studies published in international journals, composed the Czech national guidelines for evaluation of environmental education programs, and published several books on environmental education and interpretation.
Daphne Goldman is an associate professor and former chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Agriculture, Faculty of Education, Beit Berl College, Israel. Her research focuses on pedagogical approaches for developing environmentally literate citizens. She has authored over thirty studies published in prominent international journals. She is the joint founder of the national conference for environmental education and has advanced environmental education for sustainability at hercollege.Iris Alkaher is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Science at Kibbutzim College of Education, a former coordinator of the Master of Education program in environmental education, and a researcher in the college's Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education. Her main research focuses on eco-humanism as an approach and practice, education for sustainability in diverse multicultural settings, and innovative approaches and pedagogies in science and environmental education.
Bruce Johnson is a professor of environmental learning and the Dean Emeritus of the College of Education at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on ecological concepts and environmental values/attitudes and actions. As the International Program and Research Coordinator for the Institute for Earth Education, he oversees earth education programs and leads sessions on earth education around the world.
Michal Medek is a senior lecturer of environmental education and he has been with the faculty since 2005. His research focuses on environmental interpretation and inquiry-based environmental education. As the founder of two residential environmental education centers, Michal has been connecting academia with the in-field environmental education program development and training of environmental education centers' staff. He is also the director of the Czech Institute for Heritage Interpretation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Outdoor Environmental Education in the Contemporary World
Editors: Jan Činčera, Bruce Johnson, Daphne Goldman, Iris Alkaher, Michal Medek
Series Title: International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29257-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29256-9Published: 04 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29259-0Published: 05 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29257-6Published: 03 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2214-4218
Series E-ISSN: 2214-4226
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 313
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Education, general, Educational Philosophy