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Learning to Govern Oneself: Environmental Education Pedagogy and the Formation of an Environmental Subject

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Jo-Anne Ferreira
Jo-Anne Ferreira*
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Griffith University
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Abstract

This paper uses the work of Weber and Foucault to explore the ways in which environmental education may operate as a site for forming and maintaining particular ethical competencies which most environmental educators argue are necessary in order to live in an ‘environmentally sustainable' manner. Environmental education practices, as evidenced in the Earthkeepers program, are examined to show how environmental education may be working in quite particular ways to construct specific ethical abilities and competencies in students. It is argued that we need to be far more concerned with and aware of the actual means we use to encourage students to live in an ‘environmentally sustainable' fashion.

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Research Article
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Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 15: Volume 15-16 , 1999 , pp. 31 - 35
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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