Socially-critical Environmental Education in Primary Classrooms The Dance of Structure and Agency /

• Main Author: Edwards, Jane (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education, 1
• Subjects: Education.; Science education.; Teaching.; Science Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Learning & Instruction.

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 na...

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.