Environment and education: a view of a changing scene
@article{Smyth1995EnvironmentAE, title={Environment and education: a view of a changing scene}, author={John C. Smyth}, journal={Environmental Education Research}, year={1995}, volume={12}, pages={247 - 264} }
This paper is an attempt to review the state of environmental education from the viewpoint of one involved in international and national strategies for its development. It relates environment and education to the whole system of human‐environment relationships and sees environmental education not as a separable package but as a movement for fundamental educational reform, in a rapidly changing world under increasing strees both from human‐induced change and from human nature itself…
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