The Future of Environmental Education in a Postmodern World?
The colloquium begins this Monday, October 19th at: http://www2.ec.gc.ca/eco/education/
The website is set up for your registration to participate in the upcoming discussions at:
http://www2.ec.gc.ca/eco/education/Registration_e.htm
We will meet participants from many corners of the globe, and look forward to such diverse participation as this colloquium format allows.
Three papers are already online:
* Environmental Education: Between Modernity and Postmodernity—Searching for an integrating education framework, by Lucie Sauvé, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada;
* Environmental Education – between modern capitalism and postmodern socialism – a reply to Lucie Sauvé, by John Huckle, South Bank University, England;
* Environmental Education: Tracing the High Points of its History, by Isabel Orellana, Stéphane Fauteux, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
A sample of papers to follow include:
* Global Education: Towards a Quantum Model of Environmental Education
David Selby, University of Toronto, Canada;
* The Contribution of Environmental Education in Sustainability by Eugenia Flogaitis, University of Athens, Greece;
* Environmental Education: Global trends and local reality by Ulf Carlsson and Strike Mkandla, United Nations Environment Programme, Kenya;
* The Socio-Scientific Dispute Character of Environmental Education by Amos Dreyfus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and Arjen E.J. Wals, Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands;
* Environmental Education and Academic Border Crossings: Addressing (educational) Imperialism in Aotearoa New Zealand by Stefanie S. Rixecker, Mana Whakatau Putaiao, Lincoln University Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand;
* A Future for Education Consistent with Agenda 21? By John Smyth, University of Stirling, Scotland;
* The Ecopsychology of Global Environmental Change by Mitchell Thomashow, Antioch New England Graduate School, USA;
* The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere: A rationale for temporal equity in environmental education by Joe Sheridan, York University, Dan Oronhiakehwen Longboat, Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation of the Haudenensaunee at Grand River Oshwe:ken and Pauline Shirt, Nimkiiquay of the Bird Clan, Cree Nation, Saddle Lake, Canada.
Please share this information with your colleagues; the colloquium’s success will rest on the broad-based participation of environmental educators.
With thanks,
Bob Jickling, Editor
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education
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