Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-skm99 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-26T15:57:59.063Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Education for Action: A Practical Demonstration of Reflected Action on the Urban Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Joan Kean
Joan Kean*
Affiliation:
Newcastle Architecture Workshop Ltd, Blackfriars, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Concern about the quality of our environment has been given increasing prominence by public, private and voluntary bodies alike. We are advised through newspapers and the media on such matters as lead in petrol, the waste on non-renewable resources, the greenhouse effect, extinction of wild flora and fauna, the dumping of nuclear waste, which are all threatening the future of our planet. There is a strong emphasis on checking and reversing the deterioration and destruction of may aspects of our world.

The word “environment”, however, has come to mean to many the natural or rural, not the human or urban. Little attention is paid to the urban environment, yet in Britain most people live in towns or cities where vast changes are taking place with dramatic effect on those who live there. We are faced with poverty, unemployment and disadvantage, as well as derelict, degraded and inhuman environments. The scale of change and complexity of issues in the urban environment demands a deeper understanding and more positive action. (Kean, 1991)

Type
Research Article
Information
Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 8 , 1992 , pp. 17 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Adams, E. & Ward, C., Art and the Built Environment, Longman, Harlow, 1982.Google Scholar
Altrichter, H. & Posch, P., Lehrer erforschen ihren Unterricht - Einfuhrung in die Methoden der Aktionsforschung, Had Heilbrunn, Klinkhardt, 1990.Google Scholar
Baines, J., Education for the Environment, BEE No. 201 Vol.2, Streetwork, London, 1988.Google Scholar
Blackett, J., Relationship between Planner and Planned, Unpublished dissertation, 1965.Google Scholar
CERI (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation OECD), Environment and School Initiatives - Proposal by the Austrian Authorities, Doc.Nr.CERI/CD(68)11, Paris, 1986 Google Scholar
Council for Urban Studies Centres, 3rd Report: Urban Studies in the 80's, Council for Urban Studies Centres, London, 1981.Google Scholar
Dehan, B. & Oberlinkels, J. L'Etude du Milieu, le Stage-Essai Methodologique, INRAP, Dijon, 1977.Google Scholar
Dehan, B. & Oberlinkels, J. Ecole tet Milieu de Vie, Partnaires Educatifs, CIRADEM, Saint-Cannat, 1985 Google Scholar
Elliot, J., Educational Theory and the Professional Learning of Teachers: An Overview, Cambridge Journal of Education, 19(1) pp. 81–101, 1989.Google Scholar
Hawkins, G., The Development of Conceptual Frameworks with Reference to Learning in the Environment, Environmental Education and Information, Vol.4, No 4 pp. 256–263, The Environmental Institute, The University of Salford, 1985.Google Scholar
Hawkins, G., Taking on the Pilot, The Times Educational Supplement, No. 3652, 27 07 1986.Google Scholar
Hawkins, G. Cultivating a Personal Concern, The Times Educational Supplement, No. 3694, 1987.Google Scholar
Housing and Local Government, Ministry of Scottish Development Department, Welsh Office, People and Planning, Report of the Committee on Public Participation and Planning, HMSO, London, 1969.Google Scholar
Kean, J., Getting Tough on the Streets, Article - Times Educational Supplement, 1991.Google Scholar
Kean, J., Environmental Education for Community Action, Children's Envir. Quarterly, Vol.6, No 2/3, 1989.Google Scholar
Kean, J., et al, Helping it to Happen, Article - Community Network, Community Education Development Centre, 1990.Google Scholar
Kean, J., et al, National Review of Architecture Workshops, Newcastle Architecture Workshop, 1990.Google Scholar
Knevitt, C. & Wates, N., Community Architecture, Penguin, London, 1987.Google Scholar
Newcastle Architecture Workshop, Byker Community Pigeon Loft, NAW Ltd, Newcastle, 1986.Google Scholar
Newcastle Architecture Workshop, Submission to Royal Society of Arts Education for Capability Scheme, NAW Ltd, Newcastle, 1986.Google Scholar
Newcastle Architecture Workshop, Report on Active Learning Unit, NAW Ltd, Newcastle, 1989.Google Scholar
Posch, P., Dynamic Qualities and Environmental Sensitivity in Education Arge Umwelterziehung, ESI Series No 9, Vienna, 1990 Google Scholar
Posch, P., Educational Dimensions of Environmental School Initiatives, Aust.J.Environ. Educ. Vol.6, pp. 79, pp. 85, 1990.Google Scholar
Van Matre, S. Acclimatization, American Camping Association, Martinsville, Indiana, 1972.Google Scholar
Van Matre, S. Acclimatizing, American Camping Association, Martinsville, Indiana, 1974.Google Scholar
Van Matre, S. Sunship Earth, American Camping Association, Martinsville, Indiana, 1979.Google Scholar