PLEASE NOTE: this research is for research in The Netherlands, the UK and Sweden only- while potentially we could expand it to other countries, these three countries are a limit for now.
I am writing an ERC Consolidator Grant 2017 proposal provisionally titled 'Environmental Education: Evaluation of European Education Programs from an Ecocentric Perspective. If there are any interested partners in the field of environmental education and education for sustainable development in The Netherlands, the UK and Sweden, could you please email me with the expression of your interest and experience in this area? Please see short summary below:
This research will investigate the measures of success of environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) in a comparative European context from an ecocentric perspective. EE refers to formally organized programs that take place in schools or protected nature areas, promoting environmental awareness, encouraging sustainable behaviours, and disseminating specific kinds of knowledge about environment. Ecocentric perspective refers to an ethical position that human beings are part of ecosystem, and that integrity of an ecosystem is essential to environmental sustainability. Earlier practice of EE was often instructed by the ecocentric position. Although varying in national contexts, EE was mostly targeted at enabling social change towards green economy and a more sustainable society as well as promoting environmental awareness and positive ecological attitudes characteristic of an ecocentric perspective. The Belgrade Charter identifies the goal of environmental education as: “To develop a world population that is aware of, and concerned about, the environment and its associated problems, and which has the knowledge, skills, attitudes, motivations and commitment to work individually and collectively toward solutions of current problems and the prevention of new ones.” This type of education corresponded with ecocentric aims of safeguarding environmental sustainability for humans and nonhumans alike, and included conservation education, outdoor education, education for deep ecology, post-humanist education, and animal rights education. These types of EE typically combined care for individual animals, entire habitats, as well as people, thus focusing on unity between environmental ethics, animal welfare, and human interests.
Since the completion of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005 – 2014) initiated by UNESCO many EE scholars have hailed the emergence of the education for sustainable development (ESD) as a progressive transition in the field. Yet, there are very few studies providing empirical evidence of efficacy of EE/ESD in cross-European perspective as far as developing a population ‘that is aware of, and concerned about, the environment and its associated problems’. Also, a large part of ‘sustainability’ education is dominated by anthropocentric concerns intertwined with social and economic objectives, placing environmental protection, at best, as one of many possible positions .
This research aims to address both theoretical as well as practical implications of EE and ESD (further referred to as EE/ESD) practice through cross-European comparison.
If you are interested in developing research in Brazil, I'll be happy to colaborate
Dear Helena,
If you are interested in developing research in Portugal I will be available to participate with you.
Kind regards
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I am currently based in South Africa but are also working with Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Myself and Prof Timmermans are currently also doing research on environmental education that might fit into your project. We have written some papers on applied science and eduation. Please contact me at [email protected]
Hello Helen
It nice to read your message, I am now working in a sustainable development project in Ca Mau (Vietnam) which is an area of mangrove forest and we are working with small scale farmers working on shrimp farming.
If possible, I would like to work with you in EE and ESD in this area with many farmers who are mostly poor families and need lots of training on environmental protection and sustainable development
My email: [email protected] ; T: (+84) 0909 375 623
Look forward to your reply.
Tuan
Dear Helen,
In developing country ED and ESD are comparatively less studies discipline. If you can suggest how your output can impact in other countries, please write few sentences about Bangladesh. I am happy to develop relevant part of the proposal.
Regards,
Edris
Dear Helena,
you can try to contact Baltic University Programme on Uppsala University Sweden http://www.balticuniv.uu.se and SWEDEST http://swedesd.uu.se/about/. Both institutions are very active in a field of ESD and maybe interested in cooperation as well.
In case of expanding your project - I offer Polish contribution:-)
Best regards
Anna
Yes Helen, we are interested. We just had the Resilience session accepted - we've added an ESD component to that, linking stewardship and education.
In case you have future research in the Philippines, please don't hesitate to contact me. I am interested in collaborating.
Dear Helen,
Is this question still open? If yes, I would be interested to collaborate. I have been working in the ESD field for several years, and since last month I'm affiliated at the Open University of the Netherlands.
I would be pleased to discuss possibilities to collaborate.
This is Dr. Saeeda from Pakistan. I worked with WWF-P for more than 4 years on EE in mountainous areas like Swat, Gilgit, Kashmir Galiyat and Chitral. I worked with women, female teachers and students in those areas. I would be happy to collaborate with you.
Dear Helen
, I am very much interested in this research , as I am doing LLM Environmental Law , at University of Sussex- United Kingdom
Thank you for providing further details .
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