Tony Shallcross
Biographic Data
| ID | 6575360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Shallcross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Shallcross |
| SIGNATURE | SHALLCROSS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moray House Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ideological and pedagogical tensions in an environmental sustainability education project: A review of adult education practices around Lake Fundudzi, South Africa
Research in poor communities in South Africa faces intellectual challenges and tensions which offer lessons for evaluating environmental education (EE). This article illuminates five such tensions that emerged during the course of an adult environmental education programme, implemented from 1999 to 2002, in communities surrounding the catchment of Lake Fundudzi in South Africa: tensions arose between traditional and modern concepts of community; …
Global Citizenship and Environmental Justice
This book focuses on the concepts of environmental justice and global citizenship from a number of different disciplinary perspectives with the intention of promoting at the very least some interdisciplinary understandings. Initially presented as papers at an interdisciplinary conference on the themes of environmental justice and global citizenship in Copenhagen in February 2002, the chapters in this volume were chosen by election by those attend…
Developing a School Focused Approach to Continuing Professional Development in Sustainability Education
This article has two aims. Its first is to describe how findings from a questionnaire survey of 96 UK primary schools influenced the theory of action adopted in the SEEPS Project, (Sustainability Education in European Primary Schools, 1997) funded by DGXI and DGXXII of the European Commission and Scottish Natural Heritage. SEEPS is a continuing professional development (CPD) project developed by representatives from 11 European educational system…
Social change and education for sustainable living
This article focuses on the ways in which environmental education can be used to promote education for sustainable living. In doing so it deliberately draws upon an eclectic framework for analysis and suggests a focus on the primacy of action. Recent research concerning environmental education points to a gap between the knowledge which young people have about the environment and the degree to which they expect to be able to contribute to protect…
Accentuate the Negative to Latch onto the Affirmative (How to Save Mockingbirds)
Role play is a potent, widely employed technique in the teaching of controversial issues. Attitude modification is often cited as a major reason for using role play. But how can we expect attitudes to change if students, either through teacher accident or their own design, are allocated roles which reinforce attitudes with which they already identify? One possible remedy is to organise groups so that students are required to identify closely with…
Developing a School Focused Approach to Continuing Professional Development in Sustainability Education
This article has two aims. Its first is to describe how findings from a questionnaire survey of 96 UK primary schools influenced the theory of action adopted in the SEEPS Project, (Sustainability Education in European Primary Schools, 1997) funded by DGXI and DGXXII of the European Commission and Scottish Natural Heritage. SEEPS is a continuing professional development (CPD) project developed by representatives from 11 European educational system…
Social change and education for sustainable living
This article focuses on the ways in which environmental education can be used to promote education for sustainable living. In doing so it deliberately draws upon an eclectic framework for analysis and suggests a focus on the primacy of action. Recent research concerning environmental education points to a gap between the knowledge which young people have about the environment and the degree to which they expect to be able to contribute to protect…
Accentuate the Negative to Latch onto the Affirmative (How to Save Mockingbirds)
Role play is a potent, widely employed technique in the teaching of controversial issues. Attitude modification is often cited as a major reason for using role play. But how can we expect attitudes to change if students, either through teacher accident or their own design, are allocated roles which reinforce attitudes with which they already identify? One possible remedy is to organise groups so that students are required to identify closely with…
Social change and education for sustainable living
This article focuses on the ways in which environmental education can be used to promote education for sustainable living. In doing so it deliberately draws upon an eclectic framework for analysis and suggests a focus on the primacy of action. Recent research concerning environmental education points to a gap between the knowledge which young people have about the environment and the degree to which they expect to be able to contribute to protect…
Developing a School Focused Approach to Continuing Professional Development in Sustainability Education
This article has two aims. Its first is to describe how findings from a questionnaire survey of 96 UK primary schools influenced the theory of action adopted in the SEEPS Project, (Sustainability Education in European Primary Schools, 1997) funded by DGXI and DGXXII of the European Commission and Scottish Natural Heritage. SEEPS is a continuing professional development (CPD) project developed by representatives from 11 European educational system…
Global Citizenship and Environmental Justice
This book focuses on the concepts of environmental justice and global citizenship from a number of different disciplinary perspectives with the intention of promoting at the very least some interdisciplinary understandings. Initially presented as papers at an interdisciplinary conference on the themes of environmental justice and global citizenship in Copenhagen in February 2002, the chapters in this volume were chosen by election by those attend…
Ideological and pedagogical tensions in an environmental sustainability education project: A review of adult education practices around Lake Fundudzi, South Africa
Research in poor communities in South Africa faces intellectual challenges and tensions which offer lessons for evaluating environmental education (EE). This article illuminates five such tensions that emerged during the course of an adult environmental education programme, implemented from 1999 to 2002, in communities surrounding the catchment of Lake Fundudzi in South Africa: tensions arose between traditional and modern concepts of community; …
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Sustainability (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Environmental education (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Law (2 works)