• DOI:10.1080/14708470408668875
Corpus ID: 17483759

Environmental Education Across Cultures: Beyond the Discourse of Shallow Environmentalism

@article{Stibbe2004EnvironmentalEA,
  title={Environmental Education Across Cultures: Beyond the Discourse of Shallow Environmentalism},
  author={A. Stibbe},
  journal={Language and Intercultural Communication},
  year={2004},
  volume={4},
  pages={242 - 260}
}

A. Stibbe

Published 2004

Sociology

Language and Intercultural Communication

Environmental education has increasingly become part of the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum worldwide. This article analyses 26 EFL textbooks used in Japan, to discover what kind of environmental education they offer, and what this says about intercultural communication in the teaching/learning process. The results show how textbooks, by concentrating mainly on technical solutions to environmental problems, fail to open to criticism the cultural values at the heart of the… CONTINUE READING

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