Environmental education research: towards and beyond passionate, scholarly conversation

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Notes

1. Organized as:Part A. Conceptualizing Environmental Education as a Field of Inquiry Section I. Historical, Contextual and Theoretical Orientations that have Shaped Environmental Education Research Section II. Normative Dimensions of Environmental Education Research: Conceptions of Education and Environmental EthicsSection III. Analyses of EE Discourses and Policies, Including their Cultural and Political Influences, at the International, National, and/or Local LevelPart B. Research on Environmental Education Curriculum, Learning, and Assessment: Processes and Outcomes Section IV. Introduction to Curriculum (and Pedagogical?) Research in EESection V. Research on Learning Processes in Environmental EducationSection VI. Evaluation and Analysis of Environmental Education Programs, Materials, and Technologies and the Assessment of Learners and LearningPart C. Issues of Framing, Doing and the Missing in Environmental Education Research Section VII. Moving Margins in Environmental Education Research,Section VIII. Philosophical and Methodological Perspectives,Section IX. Insights, Gaps and Future Directions in Environmental Education Research.

2. Note to reader: spot the intended tense-aspect-mood.

3. If not a continued confusion of a possible mode of environmental education with a substantive logic of inquiry, and the prospect of ever slippery metaphors and politics amongst the research community (see, Clegg 2010).