Socially-critical environmental education in primary classrooms [electronic resource] : the dance of structure and agency / Jane Edwards.
2016
GE70
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Title
Socially-critical environmental education in primary classrooms [electronic resource] : the dance of structure and agency / Jane Edwards.
Author
Edwards, Jane, author.
ISBN
9783319021478 (electronic book)
3319021478 (electronic book)
9783319021461
331902146X
3319021478 (electronic book)
9783319021461
331902146X
Published
Cham : Springer, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
GE70
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.7071
Summary
The effectiveness of Education for Sustainable Development depends on the ability of schools and teachers to embrace pedagogies that reduce the gap between the rhetoric of education for the environment and the reality of classroom practices. This book responds to the need to better understand the nature of the relationships between agency and structure that contribute to the development of educational rhetoric-reality gaps in order to inform processes that most effectively facilitate pedagogical change. This book explores the issues of pedagogical change through the experiences of Australian primary school teachers faced with the challenge of implementing an environmental education program in which young students were positioned as active participants in the social processes from which environmentally sustainable practices could be developed. These teachers were required to adopt pedagogies that often represented the antithesis of their well-established teacher-directed approaches. Through the use of Anthony Giddens' Theory of Structuration this book provides unique perspectives of the teacher mediated manner in which certain elements of structure and agency interrelate to enable and constrain classroom practices--essential understandings for school principals and educational policy developers who aim to effectively implement pedagogical change. This book also demonstrates that the Theory of Structuration provides a valuable ontological research framework, and provides social researchers with practical guidance for how to relate this theory to specific research issues.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
International explorations in outdoor and environmental education ; volume 1.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The rhetoric-reality gap
Chapter 2: Facing the future
Chapter 3: Getting to know Giddens: Structuration as as ontological framework
Chapter 4: Putting Giddens into practice
Chapter 5: The state of play
Chapter 6: The rhetoric and the reailty
Chapter 7:The dance of the 'duality of structure ad agency'
Chapter 8: Ideology and ontological security
Chapter 9: The dance of structure and agendy
socially-critical environmental education in primary classrooms.
Chapter 2: Facing the future
Chapter 3: Getting to know Giddens: Structuration as as ontological framework
Chapter 4: Putting Giddens into practice
Chapter 5: The state of play
Chapter 6: The rhetoric and the reailty
Chapter 7:The dance of the 'duality of structure ad agency'
Chapter 8: Ideology and ontological security
Chapter 9: The dance of structure and agendy
socially-critical environmental education in primary classrooms.