The 2007 World Environmental Education Congress will be held in  
Durban, South Africa from 2-6 July 2007.

Abstracts must be submitted by 30 November 2006 at the congress  
website. Abstracts submitted could be for full length papers, posters  
or workshops.
Abstracts are to be limited to a maximum of 100 words. Full details  
at the congress website:
http://www.weec2007.com


The Congress Theme is ‘Learning in a Changing World’
The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development is stimulating  
debate about learning and change. Most significant is the reminder to  
re-think learning in a changing world. What role does environmental  
education have to play in this process?

One of the most constant features of life today is change.  
Globalisation and internationalisation are among processes that have  
created a world context of uncertainty, flux and risk. Schools,  
community organisations, business and governments around the world  
are challenged to respond to unprecedented and complex economic,  
political, social and environmental changes. The direction of human  
development is in question. Traditional forms of teaching, learning  
and awareness raising are changing to incorporate new concepts and  
life-long learning approaches. Organisational and workplace learning  
is evolving. People everywhere are learning in a changing world.

Since the Tbilisi Principles on education and environment were  
released in 1977, environmental education has created many  
opportunities for critical and creative thinking, teaching, learning,  
awareness raising and taking action. Thirty years later, the 2007  
World Environmental Education Congress hopes to extend creative  
opportunities for dialogue, reflection and evaluation in a growing  
and dynamically evolving field that is currently engaging with the  
outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the  
implications of the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development.

Within the broader orientation of the WEEC 2007 theme ‘Learning in a  
Changing World’, the following sub-themes will guide the Congress  
Programme development:
• Environmental education in the UN Decade on Education for  
Sustainable Development
• Globalisation, internationalisation and environmental education
• Environmental education, ethics and action
• Environmental education, training and life-long learning
• New learning theory and approaches
• Research, innovation and evaluation
• Cultural changes and environmental learning
• Sustainable schools and learning institutions
• Environmental education in contexts poverty, risk and vulnerability
• Environmental education and the WEHAB (Water, Energy, Health,  
Agriculture, Biodiversity) agenda
• Environmental education, social justice and socio-ecological change
• Environmental education, policy and curriculum transformations
• Ecological integrity, society and environmental education.

The Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa will  
publish a special edition of the Southern African Journal of  
Environmental Education to mark the hosting of the Congress in  
Southern Africa and Tbilisi+30. Other journals will be invited to  
publish papers produced for the Congress.