Ecological Education: The Structuring of the Man-Nature Relationship as the Guiding Theme of a Pedagogical Quest.

Abstract

There is no theory of ecological education, a fact which both impedes and facilitates a paper on this topic. On the one hand, one strays into a hopeless mesh of terms and fragmentary conceptions, in constant danger of becoming entangled. (Volume 2, Environmental Education, of the CALLIES/LOB handbook of environmental and peace education [7], for example, contains over 700 pages with contributions from seventy authors.) On the other hand, this very lack of theory gives me a certain amount of freedom to shape the theme myself.