International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education [Paperback]

The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment, health, development, and education. The growth in scholarship makes this an opportune time to review and synthesize the knowledge base of the environmental education (EE) field.

The purpose of this 51-chapter handbook is not only to illuminate the most important concepts, findings and theories that have been developed by EE research, but also to critically examine the historical progression of the field, its current debates and controversies, what is still missing from the EE research agenda, and where that agenda might be headed.

Published for the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

1. Introduction: An Orientation to Environmental Education and the Handbook Robert B. Stevenson, Arjen E.J. Wals, Justin Dillon, and Michael Brody Part A. Conceptualizing Environmental Education as a Field of Inquiry Section I. Historical, Contextual and Theoretical Orientations that have Shaped Environmental Education Research Annette Gough 2. The Emergence of Environmental Education Research: A History of the Field Annette Gough 3.Socio-Ecological Approaches to Environmental Education and Research: A Paradigmatic Response to Behavioral Change Orientations Regula Kyburz-Graber 4.Thinking Globally in Environmental Education: A Critical History Noel Gough 5.Selected Trends in Thirty Years of Doctoral Research in Environmental Education in Dissertation Abstracts International from Collections Prepared in the United States of America Tom Marcinkowski, Jennifer Bucheit M.S, Vanesló¬