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The Green Fridge Quest - Tertiary Environmental Education for ESD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Carrie Sonneborn
Carrie Sonneborn*
Affiliation:
Australian Conservation Foundation, A.C.T.
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Abstract

Historically the values of schools and colleges have mirrored those of the larger society. Not only has education uncritically accepted the association of progress and the unfettered growth economy, it has trained engineers and managers, performed the research and developed the technologies which in aggregate have had such a devastating impact on the environment. A fundamental reorientation now needs to occur with the development of new assumptions undergirding education which treat the interaction of ecological processes, market forces, cultural values, equitable decision making, government actions, and environmental impacts of human activities in a holistic, interdependent manner (Berberet in Fien, 1993).

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Research Article
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Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 10 , 1994 , pp. 47 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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