Values Education in Outdoor Environmental Education Programs from the Perspective of Practitioners

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F20%3A00114169" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/20:00114169 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/11/4700" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/11/4700</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12114700" target="_blank" >10.3390/su12114700</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Values Education in Outdoor Environmental Education Programs from the Perspective of Practitioners

Original language description

Shaping environmental values is considered one of the goals of environmental education. At the same time, this creates questions about the line between indoctrination and education. While values education has been widely discussed from various theoretical perspectives, few studies have analyzed how it is being practiced. This article investigates five outdoor environmental education programs and identifies the values the programs promote as well as the means they use to communicate these values to students. Additionally, the article examines the perspectives of 17 program leaders and center directors regarding the ways in which values should be promoted in environmental education and the approaches they use in their practice. According to the findings, all the observed programs applied a normative, value-laden approach, communicating mainly the values of universalism. The most frequently observed strategy was the inculcation of desirable values by moralizing and modeling. Simultaneously, some of the leaders’ beliefs, while highlighting value-free or pluralistic approaches, contradicted their rather normative practice. This article describes the theory–practice gap identified and discusses the implications of the prevailing use of the normative approach in outdoor environmental education for the field. It calls for opening an in-depth debate on what, why, and how values belong in outdoor environmental education practice.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50300 - Education

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-15374S" target="_blank" >GA18-15374S: Promoting Behavioral and Value Change through Outdoor Environmental Education</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

1-12

UT code for WoS article

000543391800363

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85086602139