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Environment and ethics: an educational perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

N. Gough
N. Gough*
Affiliation:
Victoria College, Rusden Campus, Clayton Victoria 3168
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Abstract

The ethical dimensions of environmental study are considered with particular reference to environmental education. It is argued that moral considerations and value judgements are an inevitable component of any form of environmental investigation or education and the nature of environmental ethics is explored in this context. Methods for transmitting environmental ethics are considered critically and the article concludes by suggesting some alternative approaches to exploring environmental ethics in education.

Type
Research Article
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Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 1984 , pp. 16 - 20
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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