Researching Education and the Environment

<p>Previously published as a special issue of <em>Environmental Education Research</em>, this collection includes papers published in the first 10 years of the journal, together with a series of specially commissioned critical vignettes that address the kinds of research that the journal attracts and wider aspects of the journal's work over that time. </p><p>Contributors and editors also look ahead to the next ten years, discussing six major themes within contemporary research that require close scrutiny:</p><ul> <li>EE and ESD: tension or transition? </li> <li>locating the environmental in environmental education research</li> <li>doing environmental education research</li> <li>environmental learning as process and outcome</li> <li>environmental education for … </li> <li>developing environmental education research. </li> </ul><p>For each theme, two papers published by the journal in the first ten years are re-printed and two researchers review the issues they raise, giving readers a broad and future-facing overview of the development of the field today.</p> <p>Introduction: Researching education and the environment: an introduction <em>Alan Reid</em> and <em>William Scott </em>Theme 1: EE and ESD: tension or transition? <em>John Smyth, Michael Bonnett, Robert B. Stevenson, Edgar Javier González-Gaudiano</em> Theme 2: Locating the environmental in environmental education research <em>Henry</em> <em>St. Maurice, Judith S. Kaufman, Margaret S. Ewing, Adrienne E. Hyle, Diane Montgomery, Patricia A. Self, Andrew Stables, Stephen Gough, Rob O’Donoghue</em> Theme 3: Doing environmental education research <em>Louise Chawla, Karen Malone, Kim Walker, Constance L. Russell</em> Theme 4: Environmental learning as process and outcome <em>Roy Ballantyne</em>, <em>Sharon Connell, John Fien, Julie (Athman) Ernst, Martha Monroe, Mark Rickinson, Ronald B. Meyers</em> Theme 5: Environmental education for … <em>Bjarne Bruun Jensen, Karsten Schnack, Phillip Payne, M. J. Barrett, Julian Agyeman </em>Theme 6: Developing environmental education research <em>Sharon Connell, Paul Hart, Arjen E. J. Wals, Justin Dillon, Glenda Raven</em> Endpiece: Researching education and the environment: retrospect and prospect <em>Alan Reid</em> and <em>William Scott</em></p>