Socially-Critical Environmental Education in Primary Classrooms: The Dance of Structure and Agency

by Jane Edwards

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331902146X
• ISBN13: 9783319021461
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"