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A Long, Winding (and Rocky) Road to Environmental Education for Sustainability in 2006

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Annette Gough
Annette Gough*
Affiliation:
RMIT University
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†Head, School of Education, RMIT University, PO Box 71, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia. Email: annette.gough@rmit.edu.au
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Abstract

This article charts the history of environmental education over four decades - from the 1960s to 2006 - as a rocky road of determined chocolate with the possibilities of rocks (nuts) and easy passage (marshmallow). There were distractions such as suggestions of changing names and new directions (add fruit?) along the way but the road has continued to be well travelled. The article concludes that there is much in common with where we have come from (the 1975 Belgrade Charter) and where we stand now (in year 2 of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development). Where next?

Keywords

education for sustainable developmentUN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
Type
Research Article
Information
Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , 2006 , pp. 71 - 76
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006 

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