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Abstract
A primary aim of environmental education is to promote environmental values. Significant life experiences (SLE) are a powerful, fast and long-lasting way to achieve this objective, but they have received little scholarly attention thus far. As examples to help us characterize SLE and understand their function, the cases of three well-known environmentalists, Seton, Leopold, and Rodríguez de la Fuente, will be studied. All three environmentalists came into contact with wolves and looked them in the eye. These experiences, described as SLE, resulted in major changes in these environmentalists’ lives. Although SLE are not reproducible on demand, by studying these cases through the narratives and biographies of these environmentalists, we can shed light on how to facilitate or promote, when possible, the acquisition of deep and lasting values through environmental education.
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3. Konrad Lorenz shared the Nobel Price for Physiology or Medicine in 1973 with the animal behaviorists Karl von Frisch and Nikolaas Tinbergen.
4. His work World Fauna (also known as Encyclopedia Salvat of Fauna), started in 1969 and prologued by Konrad Lorenz, is composed of 12 volumes, edited by Salvat Ed. Overall, 40 million volumes have been sold in 30 countries all over the world, an unprecedented success in this domain, and the volumes have been translated into 16 languages.
http://elrectanguloenlamano.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/felix-rodriguez-de-la-fuente-awarded.html.
5. The authors are aware that the chosen environmentalists are Western white men, but attending to any potentially racialized and gendered histories of environmentalism and environmental education is beyond the scope and focus of this paper.