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Socially-critical Environmental Education in Primary Classrooms - The Dance of Structure and Agency (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Socially-critical Environmental Education in Primary Classrooms - The Dance of Structure and Agency (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education, 1
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The effectiveness of Education for Sustainable Development depends
on the ability of schools and teachers to embrace pedagogies that
reduce the gap between the rhetoric of education for the
environment and the reality of classroom practices. This book
responds to the need to better understand the nature of the
relationships between agency and structure that contribute to the
development of educational rhetoric-reality gaps in order to inform
processes that most effectively facilitate pedagogical change. This
book explores the issues of pedagogical change through the
experiences of Australian primary school teachers faced with the
challenge of implementing an environmental education program in
which young students were positioned as active participants in the
social processes from which environmentally sustainable practices
could be developed. These teachers were required to adopt
pedagogies that often represented the antithesis of their
well-established teacher-directed approaches. Through the use of
Anthony Giddens' Theory of Structuration this book provides unique
perspectives of the teacher mediated manner in which certain
elements of structure and agency interrelate to enable and
constrain classroom practices-essential understandings for school
principals and educational policy developers who aim to effectively
implement pedagogical change. This book also demonstrates that the
Theory of Structuration provides a valuable ontological research
framework, and provides social researchers with practical guidance
for how to relate this theory to specific research issues.
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