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Sacks, Arthur B., And Others
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Current Issues in Environmental Education and
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Environmental Studies. Volume VIII. Selected Papers
from the Annual Conference of the National
Association for Environmental Education (11th, Silver
Bay, New York, October 15-20, 1982).
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Attitude Measures; Citizen Participation;
DESCRIPTORS
*Conservation Education; Curriculum Development;
Elementary Secondary Education; Energy;
*Environmental Education; *Global Approach; Higher
Education; Instructional Development; *Literature
Reviews; Nonformal Education; Postsecondary
Education; *Program Descriptions; Science Education;
*Teacher Education; Training Methods; Undergraduate
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Acid Rain; *Environmental Education Research
IDENTIFIERS
ABSTRACT
Provided in three major sections are selected papers
Association for
presented at the 1982 Conference of the National
inVited
Environmental Education. The first part contains four
related to
addresses on environmental issues and two symposium papers
of addresses focus on
the Global 2000 Report to the President. Topics
education/citizen participation, acid rain, and the Reagan
Administration's environmental policy. The seven essays that follow
education
give the practitioner's perspective on k.nvironmental
in the final section are
programs, approaches, and issues. Included
presented.in four
14 research and evaluation papers. These are
of
subsections focusing on: (1) environmental history (Unsung Heroes
education research
the Environmental Movement); (2) environmental
research
problems and issues, including an analysis of 10 years of
Environmental Education;
reported in volumes 3-12 of the Journal of
(3) inservice teacher education; and (4) four additional
research/evaluation papers: a summary of arguments against use of
investigation of
values clarification in public education; an
relationships between sex-role identification and degree of
technique
environmental concern, knowledge, and personal commitment;
discussion of
for facilitating citizen participation; and a
of the
photovoltaics in the soft energy path. Appended is a list
Series. (JN)
"Selected repot's" volumes in the "Current Issues"
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CURRENT ISSUES
U S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
in Environmental Education
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Selected Papers from. the Eleventh Annual
Conference of the National Association
for Environmental Education
Edited by
Arthur B. Sacks
Louis A. Iozzi
Richard J. Wilke
with a Foreword by
Reid A. Bryson
The National Association for Environmental
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Environmental Education Information
Reports
Environmental Education Information
Reports are issued to analyze and
summarize information related
to the teaching and learning of environmental
education.
It is hoped that these reviews
will provide information for
personnel involved in development,
ideas for teachers, and indications of
trends in environmental education.
Your comments and suggestions for this
series are invited.
John F. Disinger
Associate Direccor, ERIC/SMEAC
Environmental Education
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of Education,
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Department of
Education under
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report do not necessarily reflectthe
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Preface to Volume VIII: Changes on the H-,rizon
The Eleventh Annual Conference of the National Association for
Environmental Education (NAEE) was held 15-20 October 1982 at Silver
Bay,
New York.
Approximately 250 individuals from 31 states, the District of
Columbia, Canada, West Germany, and India participated.
We were especially
pleased that Dr. Desh Bandhu, President of the Indian Environmental
Society
and Secretary of the Asian Environmental Society, and Swami Yuktananda,
Founder of the Center for Value Orientation and Environmental
Education in
Calcutta, were both able to attend.
The essays in this volume represent the best of the Conference
papers
submitted for editorial consideration.
Current Issues has been designed.to
provide both environmental applications
-- the practitioner's perspective
-- and the findings of original research and scholarly analysis
the
researcher's perspective.
Our goal has been to integrate in one Volume the
exploration of issues facing environmental educators with sound
environmentally-related research and scholarship.
The volume serves a
community which consists of elementary and secondary educators, those
associated with non-formal educational establishments
-- public agencies,
nature centers, non-governmental environmental groups and organizations
--
and environmental scientists and researchers associated with colleges,
universities, and research establishments in the public and private
sectors.
This community is represented in the membership and sectional
structure of NAEE.
The make-up of the editorial staff and marmscript reviewers who have kindly
volunteered their time and talent have been selected so
as to insure that
the breadth of interests and expertise is wide enough to accomodate NAEE's
diverse membership and the wide range of papers presented at
our annual
Conference.
Last year the Current I5sues format was slightly altered.
In addition to a
section on Environmental Education Applications
-- The Practitioner's
Perspective, and a section on Research and Evaluation
-- Refereed Papers,
Volume VII included a section .)f Invited Addresses and Symposia.
We have
continued this approach and are pleased to be able to provide
our readers
with the addresses presented at the Eleventh Annual Conference by Robert F.
Flacke, Commissioner of New York State's Department of Environmental
Consercation; the Honourable John A. Fraser, member of the Canadian
Parliament for Vancouver South; David Hawkins, Senior Staff Attorney with
the National Resources Defense Council; and Senator Gaylord Nelson,
Chairman of the Wilderness Society.
In addition, we are pleased to be able
to include presentations from an invited symposium on Global 2000.
This year we have also been ablc: to continue the practice of inviting
a
guest "Foreword" from a figure prominent among the environmental community
to comment on environmental education and important relevant issues.
This
year we feature Professor Reid A.
Bryson, Director of the Institute for
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Environmental Studies at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Bryson
is internationally recognized for his work
in meteorology and long range
climatic forecasting.
He was one of the nation's small
core of
distinguished scholars who first realized the
need for both
interdisciplinary environmental studies and for
new mechanisms and
institutions designed to engage in such study.
We are most pleased that
Professor Bryson accepted our invitation.
Although the Current Issues series has
met many of the needs of NAEE, the
proceedings format necessarily has
never fully been able to capture the
potential of possible publications from
an organization such as ours.
Though the editorial staff has sought
over the years to enhance the
publication's quality, raising editorial
standards by developing a
mechanism for peer review, still,
as a conference proceedings, Current
Issues is limited, open only
to those able to attend the annual Conference
and present papers, panels, and symposia.
Those in the environmental
community who have much to offer, but who Jlave
not been members of NAEE, or
who are members and have been unable
to attend, particularly in difficult
financial times, have been unable to reach NAEE's
membership through our
own professional publications.
NAEE's Publications Committee therefore
this year sought to remedy this
situation with a change in NAEE's overall publication
strategy.
The
Committee's three-part recommendation
was adopted by the Board of Directors
at Silver Bay:
In addition to an annual Conference proceedings (Current
Issues) and a
periodic newsletter (the Environmental Communicator),
the Publications
Committee would develop a monograph series.,Papers
would be published
either occasionally and/or as an annual review of
the best work
representing research, theory, and practice in
environmental education and
environmental studies.
Papers would be solicited by an editorial board
representative of NAEE's sectional structure.
All papers would be subject
to peer review.
Membership in NAEE and attendance at NAEE Conferences
would not be required for authors publishing
in the monograph series.
We believe that this array of publications will
better serve NAEE
membership and the environmental community
at large.
We believe that this
new venture represents the direction of "maturing influence"
to which
Professor Bryson refers in his Foreword.
We could not close this Preface without
a vote of appreciation to John
Disinger, Associate Director of the ERIC
Clearinghouse for Science,
Mathematics and Environmental Education at The
Ohio State University, for
his very able assistance.
ERIC has supported NAEE and Current Issues
since
its beginnings, and there is little doubt
that NAEE owes ERIC, The Ohio
State University, and John Disinger more than
it can repay.
Likewise, we
wish to acknowledge the suppoxt of the institutions
which are the academic
homes of the editors:
The Institute for Environmental Studies of the
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University of Wisconsin-Madison; The
Institute for Science, Technology
and
Social Science Education of Rutgers-The
State University of New Jersey;
and
the College of Natural Resources of
the University of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point.
Their positive contributions in staff
time, facilities, and
supplies and expenses continue
to make a quality Current ISsues effort
a
poSsibility.
Arthur B. Sacks, Chair, NAEE
Publications Committee
Louis A. Iozzi
Richard J.-Wilke
Editors; Current Issues VIII
December 1982
National Association for Environmental Education
Board of Directors
Curtis D. Abdouch, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, DC
Teresa M. Auldridge, Virginia Department of Education, Richmond, VA
William G. Berberet, Williamette University, Salem, OR
Dorothy A. Cox, Clarenceville Junior High School, Farmington Hills, MI
Donald F. Darling, Helena School District 1/1, Helena, MT
John F. Disinger, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
A. Joy Finlay, Environmental and Outdoor Education Council, Alberta, Canada
Kenneth Frazier, Ames Public Schools, Ames, IA
David L. Hanselman, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY
Martin Hetherington, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Lynn M. hodges, Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, TN
Lillabelle A. Holt, The Ohio State University, Newark, OH
John Hug, Ohio Department of Education, ColuMbus, OH
Louis A. Iozzi, Rutgers-The State University, New Brunswick, NJ
Carol A. Lively, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Denver, CO
Edward McCrea, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC
Arthur B. Sacks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Karl E. Schwaab, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
Alan M. Schwartz, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Talbert B. Spence, Wave Hill Center for Environmental Studies, Bronx, NY
William B. Stapp, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Howard Teague, Bemidji, MN
,Vicki K. Vine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Richard J. Wilke, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI
Executive Committee
President
Judith M. Schultz, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, OH
Executive Vice President
Joan M. Heidelberg, Brukner Nature Center,
Troy, OH
Immediate Past President
Craig B. Davis, Iowa State University,
Ames, IA
President-Elect
William B. Stapp, The University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI
Secretary
Arthur B. Sacks, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI
Treasurer
John F. Disinger, The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH
Member-at-Large
William G. Berberet, Williamette University,
Salem, OR
Member-at-Large
Louis A. Iozzi, Rutgers-The State University,
New Brunswick, NJ
Member-at-Large
Talbert B. Spence, Wave Hill Center for
Environmental Studies, Bronx, NY
Current Issues in
Environmental Education
and Environmental Studies, Volume
VIII
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EDITORS:
Dr. Arthur B. Sacks
Administrator of Academic Programs
Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
70 Science Hall
Madison, WI
53706
Dr. Louis A. Iozzi
Associate Professor of Science and Environmental
Education
Cook College
Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
08903
Dr. Richard J. Wilke
Associate Professor of Environmental Education
Director, Central Wisconsin Environmental.Station
College of Natural Resources
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI
54481
SPECIAL ASSISTANCE:
Ms. Eileen Hanneman
Departmental Secretary
Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ms. Leslie Paradise
Secretary
Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
COVER SKETCH:
Jackie Fourman*
Staff Artist
Brukner Nature Center
Troy, OH
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1983 Conference
Crossroads: Society and Technology
Crossroads:
Society and Technology has been identified
as the theme for
the Twelfth Annual Conference of the National
Association for Environmental
Education, scheduled for September 30-October 5, 1983,
at the Hoyt
Conference Center, Eastern Michigan University,
Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Subthemes are:
Ecological Effects of Technology
Culture and Technology
The Built Environment
Technology and Resources
For information concerning the
program, contact the Conference Program
Chairperson:
Dr. John H. Baldwin
University of Oregon
156 Hendricks
Eugene, OR
97403
[phone]
Each of NAEE's three sections is participating both in
conference planning
and in the organization and presentation of
pre-conference activities.
Contact:
For the Environmental Studies Section
Dr. Richard L. Perrine, Engr. 1,
Room 2066, University of California, Los Angeles
90024;
[phone];
For the Elementary and Secondary Education Section
- Dr. Lillabelle Holt,
The Ohio State University, Newark, OH 43055; [phone];
For the Non-formal Education Section
- Mr. Edward McCrea, 10718 Ashby
Place, Fairfax, VA
22030; [phone].
Other conference-related information, including registration informaiion,
may be obtained from:
Joan M. Heidelberg, Executive Vice-President
National Association for Environmental Education
P.O. Box 400
Troy, OH
45373
[phone]
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Reviewers
The editors would like to thank
those listed below who have graciously
volunteered their services
as reviewers for the Current Issues series.
Reviewers are selected from within
NAEE ranks and from without in
an
attempt to bring a broad scope of scholarly
and professional expertise to
bear upon submitted
papers.
Curtis D. Abdouch
National Wildlife Federation
Was:Lington, D.C.
20036
John H. Baldwin
Environmental Studies
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
97403
Janey M.Y. Cheu
Center for Coastal and Environmental
Studies
Cook College
Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, N.J.
08903
Craig B. Davis
Environmental Studies
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
50011
Arthur W. Edwards
Associate Dean of Instruction
Cook College
Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, N.J.
08903
Michael P. Gross
School of Education
University of Winsconsin-Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI
54481
Mark Hanson
Energy Systems and Policy Programs
Energy Research Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
53706
Harold R. Hungerford
Department of Curriculum, Instruction
and Media
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL
62901
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