Educating for Environmental Citizenship in Non-formal Frameworks for Secondary Level Youth

Demetra Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, Daphne Goldman, Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis, Gema Parra, Katharina Lapin, Marie-Christine Knippels, Frans Van Dam

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Abstract

Non-formal education is an integral component to lifelong learning and its aim is for young people and adults to acquire and maintain the skills and competencies necessary to adapt to a continuously changing environment. Non-formal education implements different learning activities and is supplementary to formal education, taking place outside, but supplementary, to the formal educational system. From the conception and throughout the ongoing evolution of environmental education, non-formal education has been identified as an important framework for conducting Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability. Therefore, non-formal settings for secondary education level can contribute to Education for Environmental Citizenship by providing the opportunity and conditions that enable young people to acquire the body of knowledge as well as the skills, values, attitudes and pro-environmental actions necessary to become an Environmental Citizen. In addition, an Environmental Citizen is empowered and motivated to participate in society as an agent-of-change in the direction of solving contemporary environmental problems, preventing the creation of new ones, and achieving sustainability and restoring our (human) relationships with nature. Pedagogies including place-based education, civic ecology education, ecojustice pedagogy, action competence and socio-scientific inquiry-based learning can contribute to building students’ competencies for the deep civic participation necessary to realise environmental and social change. However, due to the novelty of the concept, the lack of a complete pedagogical framework for Education in Environmental Citizenship in non-formal settings presents a major challenge.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConceptualizing environmental citizenship for 21st century education
EditorsA. Hadjichambis, D. Hadjichambis, P. Reis, J. Cincera, J. Boeve-de Pauw, N. Gericke, M.C. Knippels
PublisherSpringer
Chapter14
Pages213-235
Number of pages23
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-20249-1
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-20248-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Publication series

NameEnvironmental Discourses in Science Education
PublisherSpringer
Volume4
ISSN (Print)2352-7307
ISSN (Electronic)2352-7315

Keywords

  • Environmental Citizenship
  • Non-formal education
  • Secondary education
  • Action competence
  • Youth civic engagement
  • Student-centred pedagogies

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