This book provides 29 readings that provide a detailed overview of those elements that might take environmental education from the intuitive to the valid, to a field where there truly is a defensible, substantive structure. Contents include: (1) "Tensions in Environmental Education: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" (Disinger, John F.); (2) "The Tbilisi Declaration"; (3) "Environmental Education's Definitional Problem" (Disinger, John F.); (4) "The Concept of Environmental Education" (Stapp, William B., et al.); (5) "The Status of Environmental Education with Respect to the Goal of Responsible Citizenship Behavior" (Culen, Gerald R.); (6) "Two Hats" (Hug, John); (7) "The Myths of Environmental Education--Revisited" (Hungerford, Harold R.); (8) "A Survey of the Status of State-Level Environmental Education in the U.S." (Kirk, Michelle; Wilke, Richard; Ruskey, Abby); (9) "Education Reform, Setting Standards, and Environmental Education" (Simmons, Deborah); (10) "Environmental Literacy in the United States" (Volk, Trudi L.; McBeth, William); (11) "Goals for Curriculum Development in Environmental Education" (Hungerford, Harold; Peyton, R. Ben; Wilke, Richard J.); (12) "Curriculum Development in Environmental Education for the Primary School: Challenges and Responsibilities" (Hungerford, Harold R.; Volk, Trudi L.); (13) "Environmental Education in the K-12 Curriculum: Finding a Niche" (Ramsey, John M.; Hungerford, Harold R.; Volk, Trudi L.); (14) "Integration and Curriculum Design" (Volk, Trudi L.); (15) "Comparing Four Environmental Problem Solving Models: Additional Comments" (Ramsey, John); (16) "A Technique for Analyzing Environmental Issues" (Ramsey, John M.; Hungerford, Harold R.; Volk, Trudi L.); (17) "So...You Want To Teach Issues?" (Ramsey, John; Hungerford, Harold); (18) "Assessment in Environmental Education" (Marcinkowski, Thomas); (19) "Outcome Research in Environmental Education: A Critical Review" (Leeming, Frank C.; Dwyer, William O.; Porter, Bryan E.; Cobern, Melissa K.); (20) "Predictors of Responsible Environmental Behavior: A Review of Three Dissertation Studies" (Marcinkowski, Thomas); (21) "Changing Learner Behavior through Environmental Education" (Hungerford, Harold R.; Volk, Trudi L.); (22) "The Pros and Cons of Research in Environmental Education" (Smith-Sebasto, Nicholas J.); (23) "Environmental Education and Environmental Interpretation: The Relationships" (Knapp, Doug); (24) "Evaluation of Natural Resource Education Materials: Implications for Resource Management" (Pomerantz, Gerri A.); (25) "Are We Meeting the Goal of Responsible Environmental Behavior? An Examination of Nature and Environmental Education Center Goals" (Simmons, Deborah A.); (26) "An Analysis of an Anti-Environmental Education Article: 'The Globalist Children's Crusade'" (Ramsey, John); (27) "Goals and Competencies for Precollege STS Education: Recommendations Based upon Recent Literature in Environmental Education" (Rubba, Peter A.; Wiesenmayer, Randall L.); (28) "The Science Education Reform Movement: Implications for Social Responsibility" (Ramsey, John); and (29) "The General Teaching Model (GTM)" (Each reading contains references.) (Hungerford, Harold R.). (CCM)
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