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Book Synopsis International Environmental NGOs' Rising Role in Education for Sustainability Through Ecological Citizenship by : 曾幗屏
Download or read book International Environmental NGOs' Rising Role in Education for Sustainability Through Ecological Citizenship written by 曾幗屏 and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis International Environmental Ngos' Rising Role in Education for Sustainability Through Ecological Citizenship by : Kwok-Ping Agnes Tsang
Download or read book International Environmental Ngos' Rising Role in Education for Sustainability Through Ecological Citizenship written by Kwok-Ping Agnes Tsang and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "International Environmental NGOs' Rising Role in Education for Sustainability Through Ecological Citizenship: the Hong Kong Case" by Kwok-ping, Agnes, Tsang, 曾幗屏, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Education is supposed to advance humans towards the common good and a better future, but the present environmental education in trend has largely failed to inculcate a social perception of nature as is required in education for sustainability. The world is facing an ecological crisis as a result of unrestrained exploitation of natural resources and pollution; while the sustainability movement remains sluggish as prevailing citizenship education in the national context continues to serve dominant values through the top-down approach and fall behind actual needs in reforming societies. Outdated thinking of citizenship and the absence of civil society involvement are argued to be the main factors slowing down education for sustainability. Ecological citizenship as an emerging concept to address world sustainability suggests a stronger role to be played by the civil society particularly in renewing the political obligations of citizens towards their unsustainable relationship with nature. A paradigm shift in educational values towards critical pedagogy should encompass environmental justice and ecological footprint to reflect the global dynamics of environmental issues today. International environmental non-government organizations can capture opportunities of this rising role, as affirmed by the Hong Kong case analyzing the work of Greenpeace and WWF and views of local key stakeholders taking part in this movement. Through their usual environmental governance work in the forms of advocacy and stakeholder engagement, international environmental non-government organizations can foster more community-based sustainability education in formal, non-formal and informal settings through the more bottom-up tripartite approach of government-business-civil society. DOI: 10.5353/th_b5210291 Subjects: Non-governmental organizations - Environmental aspects - China - Hong Kong Environmental ethics - Study and teaching - China - Hong Kong
Book Synopsis Environmental Citizenship by : Andrew Dobson
Download or read book Environmental Citizenship written by Andrew Dobson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary consideration of how effective environmental citizenship can be in achieving sustainability, with theoretical, practical, and ethnographic perspectives.
Book Synopsis Education for Sustainability by : Stephen Sterling
Download or read book Education for Sustainability written by Stephen Sterling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with new Introduction and additional new chapter. At a time when polls suggest that a majority of young British people believe that the future will offer a worse quality of life than the present, it is becoming imperative that children are introduced to principles of sustainability through the educational system from an early age, and that these principles are regularly reinforced and built upon. The government's own Panel on Sustainable Development has called for a 'comprehensive strategy for environmental and training', and NGOs frequently point to education as a key policy instrument in the transition to sustainable development. This is the first book published in Britain to provide an overview of the theory and practice of these issues. It brings together contributions from environmental educators working in the formal and informal sectors and in continuing education, and provides perspectives on the philosophy, politics and pedagogy of education for sustainability, as well as case studies and pointers towards good practice. Part I establishes some initial perspectives on sustainability, education and the role of NGOs; the potential for education for sustainability in the formal and informal sectors is assessed in Parts II and III; Part IV discusses its development as part of the greening of business and local government; and Part V looks at the way forward.
Book Synopsis The Role of Environmental NGOs: Russian Challenges, American Lessons by : National Research Council
Download or read book The Role of Environmental NGOs: Russian Challenges, American Lessons written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-12-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NRC committee was established to work with a Russian counterpart group in conducting a workshop in Moscow on the effectiveness of Russian environmental NGOs in environmental decision-making and prepared proceedings of this workshop, highlighting the successes and difficulties faced by NGOs in Russia and the United States.
Book Synopsis Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education by : Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis
Download or read book Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education written by Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Engaging with Environmental Justice: Governance, Education and Citizenship by :
Download or read book Engaging with Environmental Justice: Governance, Education and Citizenship written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with Environmental Justice: Governance, Education and Citizenship is a compilation of theoretical and empirical works presented during the 9th Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship conference of the Inter-disciplinary Net in Oxford, U. K.
Book Synopsis Environmental Sustainability Education for a Changing World by : Erika Pénzesné Kónya
Download or read book Environmental Sustainability Education for a Changing World written by Erika Pénzesné Kónya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, there is a need to promote and empower practical action towards better environmental conservation and greater sustainability; education aspires to achieve and motivate this – one mind at a time. This book advances a future-oriented vision of the development of environmental sustainability education in settings outside the high-school. It provides practical guidance for teacher practitioners and policy makers in community-oriented environmental sustainability education. It promotes a modern holistic approach to sustainability learning in and by the community through participative engagement with sustainability issues. Its special foci include working with volunteers and citizen scientists, through museums or through re-purposing Higher Education. Its approach emphasises the implementation of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and cooperation with environmental management professionals. This book’s cosponsors include the International Association for Headwater Control and FAO – European Forestry Commission’s Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds, as well as the International Environmental Education Conferences, Eger, Hungary and the Hungarian Academy of Science’s Subcommittee on Future Studies. Community education has long been a goal for environmental management, whose practitioners realise that interventions, such as biodiversity conservation, are only truly sustainable when supported by the local land-user and stakeholder communities; this depends upon these stakeholders’ understanding why intervention is necessary.
Book Synopsis Schooling for Sustainable Development Across the Pacific by : John Chi-Kin Lee
Download or read book Schooling for Sustainable Development Across the Pacific written by John Chi-Kin Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) are asserting their growing role in curricula around the world, yet how deeply embedded are they in the learning systems of the Pacific nations? Building on an earlier analysis in China and Taiwan, this volume expands its purview to examine the quality and extent of environmental and sustainable development education in a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including China itself, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Indonesia. As well as offering detailed national analyses provided by Asian-Pacific academics and professionals, this work includes examples in the US and Canada and an introduction that assesses the contrasting challenges and positive commonalities among diverse education systems. The chapters reflect leading-edge practice, innovation, and depth of experience and at the same time as detailing locally relevant and culturally appropriate strategies they also provide clear models and strategies for expanding the application and influence of education for sustainable development elsewhere. In doing so, they mirror the global nature of environmental issues as well as the local nature of the solutions.
Author :International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Commission on Education and Communication Publisher :IUCN ISBN 13 :2831706238 Total Pages :204 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (317 download)
Book Synopsis Education and Sustainability by : International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Commission on Education and Communication
Download or read book Education and Sustainability written by International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Commission on Education and Communication and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A publication from IUCN's Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), this book tells the stories of people who work with communities to motivate them to create a more sustainable future. The accounts range from engaging communities through theatre to a revival of indigenous stories to pass on good environmental practice. The publication was produced both to share what educators around the world have learnt and to give them a platform to tell their stories.
Book Synopsis Education and Sustainability by : Michelle Y. Merrill
Download or read book Education and Sustainability written by Michelle Y. Merrill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the state of sustainability education in Asia. It covers national policies, institutional policies and practices within Asian universities, sustainability considerations for teacher training at schools of education, and pedagogical practices for sustainability in higher education. With contributors from universities and NGOs in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia, India, China and South Korea, this volume brings together the best papers from a series of successful international conferences on post-secondary education for sustainability in Asia. The book is organized into five parts: • Part I focuses on paradigms for sustainability education • Part II looks at sustainability education contexts, strategies and outcomes at the national level • Part III gives examples of sustainability programs and strategies adopted at specific universities • Part IV highlights sustainability education research from schools of education • Part V explores specific examples of post-secondary educational practices in sustainability
Book Synopsis The Eco-Certified Child by : Malin Ideland
Download or read book The Eco-Certified Child written by Malin Ideland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While few could dispute the need for Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) for children and young people, this book explores the problems inherent in this educational practice. Despite good intentions, the author highlights how ESE can in fact contribute to a (re)production of harmful norms and possible subjectivities by categorizing various groups as ‘threats’ to the environment. The author analyzes how these categorizations are entangled in historical discourses on social class, nationality and race, thus resulting in double gestures of inclusion and exclusion. Even as sustainability and environmental engagement becomes a treasured identity for the affluent, the author highlights that despite the best of intentions, the discourse of ESE can reinforce positions of suborder and superiority, which could even impede real change in the long run. This illuminating book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of sustainability education. Foreword by Thomas S. Popkewitz
Book Synopsis Children, Citizenship, and Environment by : Bronwyn Hayward
Download or read book Children, Citizenship, and Environment written by Bronwyn Hayward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her comparative discussion with the US and UK draws on lessons from New Zealand, a country where young citizens often express a strong sense of personal responsibility for their planet but where many children also face shocking social conditions. Hayward develops a 'SEEDS' model of ecological citizenship education (Social agency, Environmental Education, Embedded justice, Decentred deliberative democracy and Self transcendence). The discussion considers how the SEEDs model can support young citizens' democratic imagination and develop their 'handprint' for social justice.From eco-worriers and citizen-scientists to streetwise sceptics, "Children, Citizenship and Environment" identifies a variety of forms of citizenship and discusses why many approaches make it more difficult, not easier, for young citizens to effect change.
Book Synopsis Building Sustainable Communities by : J. D. Wulfhorst
Download or read book Building Sustainable Communities written by J. D. Wulfhorst and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material --Introduction /J. D. Wulthorst and Anne K. Haugestad --Between Respectfulness and Instrumentalism /J. D. Wulthorst and Anne K. Haugestad --Wildlife Valuations: Lessons of Learning for Environmental Valuation and Education /S. Ram Vemuri --Efficiency versus Equity: Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy in the Netherlands /Hanneke Kruize , Peter P.J. Driessen , Pieter Clasbergen , and Klaas (N.D.) van Egmond --Born Again? The U.S. Nuclear Power Movement /J.D. Wulfhorst --Public Avenues to Private Spaces: Regulating the Car /Sudhir Chella Rajan --Job Losses with a Rising GDP: An Unsustainable Mix for the U.S. Economy /Jon L. Bryan --Responsible Stewardship and Sustainable Liberalism /J. D. Wulthorst and Anne K. Haugestad --What is to be Done? Towards a World to which both Labour and Environmentalists can Hold Allegiance /John T. Cumbler --Plant Biotechnology Projects of a Regional Research Network: Differentiation in Innovation Strategies /Jobst Conrad --The GM Nation Debate: Participatory Decision Making? /Elisa Pieri --Organic Agriculture in a Global Perspective /Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe and Erik Steen Kristensen --From Ground to Bottle: Sustainable Winegrowing Practices in California /Allison Lengauer Jordan , Jeff Dlott , and Kari Birdseye --Conserving and Growing Alternatives: TheorisingSeed Saving and Exchange Networks /Catherine Phillips --Games for the Future /J. D. Wulthorst and Anne K. Haugestad --Resounding Cities: Acoustic Ecology and Games Technology /Lawrence Harvey and Jules Moloney --Decent Competition in a World of Households /Anne K. Haugestad --Fractality: A Key to Global Citizenship and Ecological Justice /David Levick --Notes on Contributors /J. D. Wulthorst and Anne K. Haugestad.
Book Synopsis Responsible Living by : Victoria W. Thoresen
Download or read book Responsible Living written by Victoria W. Thoresen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the challenges of the transition to responsible, sustainable lifestyles, this book examines developments over the last decade in relation to: - the creation of awareness of consumer citizenship, civic involvement and environmental stewardship - research, projects and publications on education for responsible living - the creation and implementation of relevant teaching methods and materials - policies on education for sustainable consumption and lifestyles - global processes for education on sustainable development The articles deal with topics related to policy support, institutional approaches, educators, young people, and local communities. They draw attention to successful initiatives and reflect upon what still needs to be done. The book also looks at the roles that central actors such as PERL (The Partnership for Education and research about Responsible Living) play in this process.
Book Synopsis Sustainability Frontiers by : David Selby
Download or read book Sustainability Frontiers written by David Selby and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education for sustainable development, the educational offshoot of the concept of ‘sustainable development’, has rapidly become the predominant educational response to the global environmental crisis. The authors apply a critical lens to the field and find it wanting in many regards. Sustainability Frontiers is an international, academic non-governmental organization based in Canada and the United Kingdom. It engages in research and innovation in the broad fields of sustainability and global education challenging dominant assumptions and current orthodoxies as it seeks to foster learner empowerment and action. It places particular emphasis on climate change, disaster risk reduction and peacebuilding and their implications for the nature and directions of sustainability education.
Book Synopsis Sustainability in Higher Education by : J. Paulo Davim
Download or read book Sustainability in Higher Education written by J. Paulo Davim and published by Chandos Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Support in higher education is an emerging area of great interest to professors, researchers and students in academic institutions. Sustainability in Higher Education provides discussions on the exchange of information between different aspects of sustainability in higher education. This book includes chapter contributions from authors who have provided case studies on various areas of education for sustainability. Focus on sustainability Present studies in aspects related with higher education Explores a variety of educational aspects from an sustainable perspective