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Values Education in Outdoor Environmental Education Programs from the Perspective of Practitioners
- Source :
- Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 4700, p 4700 (2020), Sustainability, Volume 12, Issue 11
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2020.
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Abstract
- Shaping environmental values is considered one of the goals of environmental education. At the same time, this creates questions about the line between indoctrination and education. While values education has been widely discussed from various theoretical perspectives, few studies have analyzed how it is being practiced. This article investigates five outdoor environmental education programs and identifies the values the programs promote as well as the means they use to communicate these values to students. Additionally, the article examines the perspectives of 17 program leaders and center directors regarding the ways in which values should be promoted in environmental education and the approaches they use in their practice. According to the findings, all the observed programs applied a normative, value-laden approach, communicating mainly the values of universalism. The most frequently observed strategy was the inculcation of desirable values by moralizing and modeling. Simultaneously, some of the leaders&rsquo<br />beliefs, while highlighting value-free or pluralistic approaches, contradicted their rather normative practice. This article describes the theory&ndash<br />practice gap identified and discusses the implications of the prevailing use of the normative approach in outdoor environmental education for the field. It calls for opening an in-depth debate on what, why, and how values belong in outdoor environmental education practice.
- Subjects :
- Geography, Planning and Development
Indoctrination
TJ807-830
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
outdoor programs
Renewable energy sources
Values education
values
GE1-350
Sociology
Universalism
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
4. Education
Field (Bourdieu)
05 social sciences
Perspective (graphical)
050301 education
Public relations
Environmental sciences
Environmental education
environmental education
qualitative
Normative
business
0503 education
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 4700
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d04bc101c94eb656aaf1b6f039b8e2eb