Schooling and environment in Latin America in the third millennium

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ID12526380
AuthorsEdgar J González‐gaudiano (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, corresponding author), Edgar González‐Gaudiano
Year2007
Volume13
Issue2
Pages155-169
Publication date2007-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironmental Education Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-4622 • E-ISSN: 1469-5871
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13504620701295684
OpenAlexW2021462476
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited2

This article develops an historical and contemporary Latin‐American perspective on the issues raised by Stevenson’s 1987 Stevenson, R. B. 1987. “Schooling and environmental education: contradictions in purpose and practice”. In Environmental education: practice and possibility, Edited by: Robottom, I. 69–82. Geelong, , Australia: Deakin University Press. [Google Scholar] article, ‘Schooling and Environmental Education: Contradictions in Purpose and Practice’. It shows that since its inception as a pedagogical field in the 1970s, environmental education has faced many challenges and resistances in the educational systems of Latin America. An analysis of the competing and contradictory discourses of environmental education in developed and developing countries suggests that among other things, system inadequacies and malfunctions, social inequalities, the agendas of modernity and globalisation, and the hybridisation of the field (e.g. with Education for Sustainable Development, adult education, emancipatory educational and political traditions) continue to fissure the discursive identity and configurations of the field in Latin America. The article explores how this affects curricular reform and teacher professional preparation and development, in the context of a depleted conventional school curriculum and its growing inability to respond to the complex challenges of the present. Such a situation can be contrasted with deliberations on the potential articulations of environmental education with the everyday life of the community, a source of opportunity and more positive note on which the article ends. The difference between being and having ... is between a society centered around persons and one centered around things. (Erik Fromm, 1976)

Context (archaeology · Curriculum · Economic growth · Education for sustainable development · Environmental education · Environmental ethics · Latin Americans · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sustainable development · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Law

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