The Education for Environmental Sustainability (EfES) SIG aims to encourage and support discussion, research, practice and scholarship focused on EfES in its broadest sense. The SIG provides a focus for this rich and varied research. The SIG supports research and scholarship across all subject specialisms (e.g. geography, science, English, history, art), sectors (formal and non-formal) and across all age phases (e.g. EYFS, primary, secondary, HE) concerned with EfES. At the same time, the SIG seeks to establish dialogue with and between other Âé¶¹ÒùÔº SIGs, including ‘Children and Childhoods’, ‘Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy’, ‘Nature, Outdoor Learning and Play’, to draw together knowledge relating to EfES.
Research interests:
- Environmental Education (EE)
- Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE)
- Climate Change Education (CCE)
- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
- and other approaches to education connecting people and the environment.
SIG aims:
- Create a community within Âé¶¹ÒùÔº for dialogue, and to advance research practice and policy making in EfES;
- Support collaborations between established and early careers researchers, practitioners and educators;
- Foster research engagement through enabling inter/transdisciplinary discussion of new and complementary theoretical insights from other SIGs;
- Explore changes and continuities in understandings of, and approaches to, EfES, including themes of inclusion, participation and ethics;
- Further understanding of the nature and purpose of EfES including curriculum, practice and policy.