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Despite efforts over the past 40 plus years, environmental sustainability is still on the margins of the curriculum in most countries. While there is much evidence that children enjoy learning about and in the environment, many teachers remain reluctant to teach environmental sustainability, and governments frequently marginalise the area. This chapter discusses the need for education for sustainability as part of global citizenship and provides a history of the implementation of environmental sustainability education in schools, with a particular emphasis on Australian and English schools, and the tensions that have been encountered. It also gives some examples of instances where environmental sustainability has been successfully implemented in schools, and concludes with a discussion of some of the challenges for the future. A thread throughout these discussions is the relationship between environmental and science education because these fields have long been seen as related in a schooling context.
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- Science Education
- Environmental Sustainability
- Environmental Education
- National Curriculum
- Global Citizenship
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Gough, A. (2016). Environmental Sustainability in Schools. In: Barkatsas, T., Bertram, A. (eds) Global Learning in the 21st Century. Global Education in the 21st Century Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-761-0_6
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