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This chapter describes the importance of psychosocial learning environments in education, and how these can help us in achieving our environmental learning goals. For many years, environmental education has been discussed with reference to the sciences often ignoring the ecology of “human societies and cultures (and their technologies) within physical communities” (Zandvliet & Brown, 2006, p. 207).
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Ormond, C.G.A., Zandvliet, D.B. (2014). Learning Environments in Higher Education. In: Zandvliet, D., Brok, P.d., Mainhard, T., Tartwijk, J.v. (eds) Interpersonal Relationships in Education. Advances in Learning Environments Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-701-8_12
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