Learners and Learning in Environmental Education: A critical review of the evidence

TitleLearners and Learning in Environmental Education: A critical review of the evidence
Publication TypeJournal Article
AuthorsRickinson, Mark
JournalEnvironmental Education Research
Volume7
Issue3
Pagination207-320
ISSN1350-4622, 1469-5871
Abstract

Recent analyses of the field of environmental education research have highlighted its rapidly expanding size and increasingly diverse nature (e.g. Hart & Nolan, 1999). This article reports on a review of a particular part of this field namely, recent empirical studies of learners and learning in primary or secondary school environmental education. The review focuses specifically on the nature and quality of the evidence generated by the work in this area. The concern with evidence is motivated by the tendency of previous reviews to focus on methodological trends more than research findings. Claims have also been made that environmental education theory and research have overlooked `the children who are the subjects of environmental education’ (Payne, 1998a, p. 20). This review contends that efforts to address such shortcomings need to be informed by a thorough and grounded understanding of what studies have, and have not, been undertaken on students and learning, and what is known, and not known, from the evidence that these studies have generated.

URLhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504620120065230
DOI10.1080/13504620120065230
Short TitleLearners and Learning in Environmental Education