Tag: 5th World Environmental Education Congress

Is crisis all that Environmental Education has left?

Post author By Gavan
Post date November 10, 2009
Categories In Environmental Education, Thinking
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photo credit: the|G|™ I just finished reading an article in The Walrus by Chris Turner titled The Age of Breathing Underwater. The hypothesis of the article, broadly stated, is that we’ve irrevocably entered the Anthropocene and nature, as the Romantics knew it, or as the prototypical environmentalist tries to protect today, is no longer. Based […]

The abstract I submitted to the 5th World Environmental Education Congress

Post author By Gavan
Post date September 29, 2008
Categories In Conference
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Hosted in Montreal next spring, this congress is kind of like the Olympics of the environmental education world: held biennially, it draws together academics and practitioners from around the world. I just submitted an abstract for a paper that is largely based on my dissertation research. Here’s the 250 words-or-less abstract: Bird-watching remains one of […]