Environment-Based Environmental Education: Inventory, Analysis, and Recommendations. Final Report of the Environment-Based Education Project.

Overview & Synopsis

This first of three volumes summarizes the activities and results of a survey of environmental education conducted for the Office of Environmental Education, U.S. Office of Education. The document presents a discussion of critical themes for environmental education; historical perspectives of environmental education; and future themes for environmental education. Attention is given to the methodology and results of a national survey of natural-environment-based education activities. Further discussion deals with interpretation of the Environmental Education Act of 1970 including the design of a survey instrument to collect data on interactions in environmental education. Concluding discussions cover the need to develop core themes in environmental education. Schematic models of various concepts and interrelationships are presented. Appendixes present copies of survey instruments, comments on survey instruments, and a bibliography. (RE)