Researchers and professors from different countries and scientific fields attempt to make a conceptualization of “sustainability” from different disciplinary approaches: social psychology, sociology, education and economy, with the intention of highlighting the interpretative parameters which facilitate the understanding of sustainability and its practical political applications.
School teachers and rural extensionists from two different regions of Brazil – the Northern State of Amapá, in the Amazon and the Southern State of Rio Grande do Sul tell about their daily life, successes and limits of their personal and professional engagement, as environmental educators, for the construction of a more fair, democratic and sustainable society.
Link: www.lojacortezeditora.com.br
The term “human” comes from the Latin: humus, “fertile soil”: the very same root of the word “humilty”. The technological and trans-human “saga” that we live today, plunges us in an alienated world and in a virtual time, where a paradoxical narcissism reigns, cause in the Market Matrix there are no more “faces” but only trademarks, codes, consumption and exclusion. Recovering the sense of being human is the philosophical task of our time. Fulfilling this task means to deliver the human being from the slavery of money and power and from its counterfeit identities which give us only false happiness. It means to take consciousness of the diversity and freedom of the human being and of the values which teach us how to live together and how to love.
Link: www.ufpe.br
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Pesquisa em educação ambiental
Frequency: Biannual
Language: Portugues
Mission: The REVIPEA is an initiative of teachers linked to three universities of the State of São Paulo, Brazil (UNESP Rio Claro, UFSCar, São Carlos and USP, Ribeirão Preto). The review, edited since 2007, it’s the first national magazine to publish the results of the research in Environmental Educational in Brazil.
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Southern African Journal of Environmental Education
Frequency: Annual
Language: English
Mission: The Southern African Journal of Environmental Education (SAJEE) is an internationally refereed journal published by the Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (EEASA). The SAJEE aims to publish and report on a wide range of aspects relating to Environmental Education, Ethics and Action in southern Africa and elsewhere. The journal seeks to further the study and practice of environmental education, ethics and action by providing a forum for researchers, scholars, practitioners and policy makers.
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International Journal of Environmental and Science Education
Frequency: Three-monthly
Language: English
Mission: The International Journal of Environmental and Science Education (IJESE) is an academic journal devoted to the publication of research articles on all aspects of environmental, science and technology education.
All research articles are reviewed by editors consisting of internationally respected science and environmental educators, researchers, and practitioners.
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Canadian Journal of Environmental Education
Frequency: Annual
Language: English
Mission: The Canadian Journal of Environmental Education (CJEE) is a refereed journal published once a year. It seeks to further the study and practice of environmental education by providing a thoughtful forum for researchers, scholars, practitioners, and post-secondary students. The publication and distribution of articles and reviews should contribute to Canadian thought and practice in environmental education and/or issues and practices of international importance to this field of study.
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Green Teacher: Education for Planet Earth
Frequency: Three-monthly
Language: English
Mission: Green Teacher is a magazine that helps youth educators enhance environmental and global education inside and outside of schools. Fifty pages of ideas and activities, four times a year.
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The Journal of Education for Sustainable Development
Frequency: Bi-annualy
Language: English
Mission: The Journal of Education for Sustainable Development (JESD) is a forum for academics and practitioners to share and critique innovations in thinking and practice in the emerging field of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). A peer-reviewed international journal, JESD aims at global readership and is published twice a year.
The journal seeks articles from the fields of environmental education, which pioneered much of the work in ESD, as well as from economics education, social sciences and the humanities.
Il Primo WEEC ha voluto essere la prima tappa di un movimento della società civile per promuovere una nuova visione dell’EA a livello mondiale di fronte alle trasformazioni scientifiche, socio-culturali, politiche, economiche e tecnologiche, in vista del Decennio delle Nazioni Unite per l’Educazione allo Sviluppo Sostenibile (2005-2014) promosso dall’UNESCO.
Comitato organizzatore: Open University of Aveiro; ASPEA (Associação Portuguesa de Educação Ambiental); Portuguese Order of Biologists.
Nei 4 giorni di Congresso ci sono state 273 presentazioni tra interventi orali e poster, sui seguenti temi:
Politiche dell’Ambiente ed Educazione
Mass media e comunicazione
Attivismo ambientale e cittadinanza
EA e coinvolgimento locale
Agricoltura e Turismo sostenibile
EA, economia e sostenibilità
In parallelo, si sono tenuti 5 workshops, guidati da esperti con diversi background provenienti da vari Paesi. Questi i temi discussi:
Gestione dei rifiuti
Ruolo dei materiali didattici nello sviluppo dell’apprendimento ambientale
Salute
Valutazione dei programmi di EA
Realizzazione programmi efficaci di educazione e informazione ambientale: come possiamo migliorare le nostre possibilità di successo?
Per consultare il programma, gli obiettivi e i workshops del Congresso clicca qui
Per approndire i temi trattati durante il Congresso è possibile scaricare gli articoli pubblicati su .eco, l’educazione sostenibile:
Link utili:
Conclusioni
Il I WEEC è stata un’occasione per trovare e rafforzare dei fili comuni che legano le esperienze dei paesi industrializzati e di quelli “in via di sviluppo”, ad esempio, la visione dell’educazione ambientale non come semplice conoscenza ma come concreto cambiamento di comportamenti (individuali e collettivi) o l’attenzione per la cittadinanza e la democrazia. E’ stato capace di raccogliere e dare visibilità ai temi e ai portatori di interesse nel campo dell’EA e dell’Educazione allo sviluppo sostenibile, evidenziando la diversità e ricchezza di approcci e problemi significativi del mondo e dell’epoca in cui viviamo. Una delle principali priorità emerse è la condivisa necessità di politiche e regole ambientali nazionali a tutti i livelli, sostenendo e orientando la coerenza sociale, economica e politica delle iniziative di EA sulla via della sostenibilità e di culture consapevoli dal punto di vista ambientale. L’educazione ambientale è chiamata ad una maggiore efficacia nella diffusione di nuovi valori e di una nuova cultura, ad un più stretto legame con le trasformazioni sociali e con problemi come la crescente povertà, ad un maggiore sforzo critico verso la conoscenza, a contrastare l’indifferenza.
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