Learning from Bad Practice in Environmental and Sustainability Education

by Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard

Overview

Learning from Bad Practice in Environmental and Sustainability Education illuminates the notion of bad practice from the perspective of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) and how it is possible to learn from it in order to avoid the relentless pitfalls and blind spots that are part of any educational field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433131646
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	10/05/2018
Series:	[Re]thinking Environmental Education , #9
Edition description:	New
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard (PhD 2012, Aarhus University, Denmark) is Associate Professor in Education Science and Global Social Challenges at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has published widely on notions of bad practice and new notions of materialisms in education. His recent publications include: "Education between discourse and matter," in Nature in Education (Peter Kemp, Ed., 2015), with Kristoffer Lolk Fjeldsted, and "The significance of ‘participation’ as an educational ideal in education for sustainable development and health education in schools," in Environmental Education Research (2015), with Venka Simovska.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments – Bad Practice? – Danish and South Korean Environmental and Climate Change NGOs – Why Educators Engage with Non-Formal ESE – The Significance of ESE Ideals – Understanding Fields of Learning – New Perspectives on Bad Practice – Learning from Bad Practice.