Implementing Environmental Education

Contemporary Issues and Trends in Education

Knowing why the environment matters is one thing; building it into a school day is another. This chapter turns environmental education into practice. It asks where the subject belongs, whether in one period or across every subject, what teaching methods actually change how students think, how young people move from knowing about climate change to acting on it, and why no two environment-friendly schools look quite the same.

Where Environmental Education Belongs

One subject or every subject, and how an environment-friendly school builds it in from the start.

Transformative Teaching Methods

Moving from transactional to transformative teaching, and the three conditions that make it work.

From Awareness to Action

Education, projects, and action, and why children are contributors rather than passive victims.

Environmental Education in Practice

Adapting lessons to local risk, and the twin strategies of mitigation and adaptation.