Introduction
1 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
(UNCED), Agenda 21: Programme of
Action for Sustainable Development (New York: United Nations, 1992).
Chapter One
2 The World Commission on Environment and Development
(Brundtland Commission), Our Common
Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), p.43.
3 The President's Council on Sustainable Development, Sustainable
America: A New Consensus for
Prosperity, Opportunity, and a Healthy Environment (Washington, DC:
Government Printing Office,
1996).
4 The term education for sustainability or
sustainability education complements a number of other
fields such as environmental education, global education, economics
education, development education,
multicultural education, conservation education, outdoor education, global
change education, and others.
Education for sustainability is considerably broader and encompasses many
aspects of these respected and
established fields of study.
5 Definitions of environmental education have been presented in the
following documents: U.N.
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Belgrade
Charter (Belgrade, Yugoslavia,
1975); Final Report, Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental
Education (Tbilisi, USSR, 1977);
The World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland
Commission), Our Common
Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987); North American
Association
for Environmental
Education (NAAEE), Defining Environmental Education: The NAAEE
Perspective, Unpublished paper,
1983; United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
(UNCED), Agenda 21: Programme
of Action for Sustainable Development (New York: United Nations,
1992);
International Council for
Adult Education, 7 Year Plan for Major Institutional Change, Phase II,
1996 ; National Archives,
Memorandum of Understanding on Environmental Education among the
Department of the Environment
Canada and the Secretariat of Social Development Republic of Mexico and the
Environmental Protection
Agency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, DC: 1992).
6 Carnegie-Mellon University study cited by Susan Cohen, "The Warm
Zone," The Washington Post
Magazine, July 1995.
7 Peter D. Hart Research, Goals and Priority Action Projects:
Environmental Education about Fish and
Wildlife Conservation (Troy, Ohio: North American Association for
Environmental Education, 1994), p.
2.
8 The Roper Organization, "America's Environmental GPA" and "Teen
America's Environmental
GPA," both surveys commissioned by SC Johnson & Son, Inc., 1991-1992.
9 Ontario Teachers Foundation position paper, 1993, p. 10. Cited in
Jody
Naters, "Learning for a
Sustainable Future," December 1994, p.11.
10 National Science and Technology Council, Office of Science and
Technology Policy, Technology for
a Sustainable Future: A Framework for Action (Washington, DC:
Government Printing Office, 1994),
p.110.
11 Harold R. Hungerford, Investigating and Evaluating
Environmental
Issues and Actions: Skill
Development Modules (Champaign, IL: Stripes Publishing Company,
1992).
12 William B. Stapp, "The Concept of Environmental Education," The
Journal of Environmental
Education, 1:1, Fall 1969, p. 31.
Chapter Two
13 Abbey Ruskey, National Environmental Education Advancement
Project, University of Wisconsin-
Stevens Point, Unpublished paper, November 1995.
14 Julian Keniry, National Wildlife Federation, Ecodemia
(Washington,
DC: 1995).
15 Jayne Chase, Blueprint for a Green School (Jefferson
City,
Missouri:
Scholastic, 1995).
16 U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education
Statistics,
Digest of Education
Statistics (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1995),
Table 4.
17 Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, Environmental Education Literacy Needs
Assessment Project: Assessing
Environmental Literacy of Student and Environmental Education Needs for
Teachers-Final Report
1/9/93-95. National Consortium for Environmental Education and
Training,
1995.
Chapter Three
18 The Commission of Global Governance, Our Global Neighborhood,
The Report of the
Commission of Global Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1995), p.
1.
19 Personal conversation with Taylor Grant, SABAN Entertainment,
February 1996.
20 Agriculture Extension Work Act (Smith-Lever Act), P.L. 63-95, May
8,
1914.
21 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
(UNCED), "Local Authorities'
Initiatives of Agenda 21," Agenda 21: Programme of Action for Sustainable
Development (New York:
United Nations, 1992).
22 U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and
Improvement, National Center
for Education Statistics, The Condition of Education (Washington,
DC:
Government Printing Office,
1994), p. 68.
23 School-to-Work Opportunities Act, P.L. 103-239, 1993.
24 U.S. Department of Education, Where We Stand in
Education (Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 1994).
25 Mindi Maline, Lifelong Learning: A Conceptual
Framework (The
National Institute on
Postsecondary Education, Libraries and Lifelong Learning, 1995).
26 Ibid.
27 Carol B. Aslanian, "Trends in Adult Learning" (New York: The
College
Board, Office of Adult
Learning, 1993).
28 U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, World
Population Profile: 1994
(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1994).
29 Ibid.
30 U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and
Improvement, Reaching The
Goals: Goal 5 - Adult Literacy and Lifelong Learning (Washington, DC:
Government Printing Office,
July 1993), p.6.
31 Fullerton, op.cit.
32 U.N. Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy
Analysis, World Social Situation
in the 1990s (New York: United Nations, 1990).
33 U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education
Statistics, Adult Literacy in America: A First Look at the Results of the
National Adult Literacy Survey
(Washington, DC:
Government Printing Office, 1992).
34 Ibid.
Chapter Four
35 Goals 2000: Educate America Act, H.R. 1804, 1994. U.S. Department
of
Education, The Goals 2000 Act: Supporting Community Efforts to Improve
Schools (Washington, DC: Governmenta Printing Office, 1994), p.1.
36 National Science and Technology Council, (NSTC), Office of Science
and
technology Policy (OSTP), Technology for a Sustainable Future: A Framework
for Action (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1994). NSTC,
OSTP, Bridge to a Sustainable Future: A National Environmental Technology
Strategy (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1995).
37 Ibid.
38 U.S. Department of Education, Interagency Technology Task Force,
Technology Learning Challenge (Washington, DC: Government Printing
Office, 1995), p.2.
39 Software Publishers Association, Software Publishers
Association
Market Report (1994-95 school year), Education Section (Washington,
DC: October 1995), p.105.
40 Ibid.
Chapter Five
41 UNESCO-UNEP, International Strategy for Action in the Field of
Environmental Education and Training for the 1990s (Nairobi & Paris,
1988). Go to Conclusion
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