AJEE Special Issue—18th AAEE Biennial Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, November 2–5, 2014 Sustainability: Smart Strategies for the 21st Century

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. iii-vi ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Hill ◽  
Janet Dyment
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Sustainability Education ◽  
Australian Journal ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
Biennial Conference ◽  
Australian Association ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
The Many

In early November 2014, over 300 delegates met in Hobart, Tasmania for the 18th Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) Biennial Conference. Titled ‘Sustainability: Smart Strategies for the 21st Century’, this conference sought to bring together innovative thinking, practice and research in the field of environmental and sustainability education. This special conference issue of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education captures a snapshot of some of that thinking. While it is by no means a comprehensive account of the many conversation threads that permeated the conference, we hope that readers will find the articles in this special issue a stimulus to your thinking and practice.

scholarly journals Environmental and Sustainability Education Research, Past and Future: Three Perspectives From Late, Mid, and Early Career Researchers

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert (Bob) Stevenson ◽  
Jo-Anne Ferreira ◽  
Sherridan Emery
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Sustainability Education ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Career Stages ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Biennial Conference ◽  
Australian Association ◽  
The Future

AbstractThe first research symposium, organised in conjunction with the Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) biennial conference, began with a dialogue between scholars at three different academic career stages. As we all entered the field at different periods in its development, the first part of our presentation and this article provide our perspectives on the context, approaches and issues that characterised the field at the time we became involved in environmental education (EE) and EE research. The second part of this article presents the lessons we have learnt from EE research, and where we see the field headed in the future.

scholarly journals AJEE Special Issue: 2016 Australian Association for Environmental Education Conference: ‘Tomorrow Making — Our Present to the Future’

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. iii-vi
Author(s):  
Peta White ◽  
Sally Birdsall
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Biennial Conference ◽  
Australian Association ◽  
The Future ◽  
Environmental Educators ◽  
Education Conference ◽  
National Organisation

The 19th Biennial Conference for the Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) was a wonderful milestone for any national organisation. Our South Australian hosts were very excited to see us all descend on Adelaide in September 2016 to take up their offer of ‘Tomorrow Making’. ‘Our Present to the Future’ was four days filled with considering what we were working on and what we are working towards, both individually and collectively. Youth presentations, collegial collaborations, and sharing of goodwill and thought resulted in a generative conference, just like we have come to expect from environmental educators. Sally and I are pleased to maintain the tradition of guest editing the AJEE Special Issue, showcasing six papers as a representation of the knowledge shared, considered, adapted, and devised at the conference.

scholarly journals Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Frank Fisher (1943–2012): A Courageous Life

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. iii-iii
Author(s):  
James Tonson ◽  
Sarah Houseman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
Electrical Engineer ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Australian Association ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainability Program

In 2007 Professor Frank Fisher was named Australia's inaugural Environmental Educator of the Year (by the Australian Association for Environmental Education). Frank lived a life driven by a determination to engage fully with the world around him. As a young electrical engineer, Frank became convinced of the need for education and research about how we shape the world around us, and contributed to the establishment of the first Australian Masters of Sustainability program at Monash University in 1973. Typified by exercises such as taking students to sit in the middle of major roads, Frank's teaching approach aimed to help students understand the social systems that shape our understanding of and impact on the world around us.

Perspectives From Emerging Researchers: What Next in EE/SE Research?

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Aguayo ◽  
Blanche Higgins ◽  
Ellen Field ◽  
Jennifer Nicholls ◽  
Susan Pudin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Sustainability Education ◽  
Online Collaboration ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Australian Association ◽  
The Future

AbstractFollowing the inaugural Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) research symposium in November 2014, we — a group of emerging researchers in Environmental Education/Sustainability Education (EE/SE) — commenced an online collaboration to identify and articulate our responses to the main themes of the symposium. Identifying as #aaeeer, our discussions coalesced into four main areas that we felt captured not only some of our current research interests, but also ‘under-explored’ areas that need further attention and that also held the potential for meaningful and ‘dangerous’ contributions to EE/SE research and practice. These themes were: (1) uncertain futures, (2) traditional knowledges for the future, (3) community EE/SE, and (4) the rise of the digital, explorations of which we present in this article. By no means intended to capture all that is worth researching in this field, these themes, and this article, are deliberately presented by #aaeeer to spark discussions, as well as showcase an example of online collaboration between researchers in a number of countries.

Ghosts in Australian Environmental Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Annette Gough
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Australian Journal ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Australian Association ◽  
History Of

The Australian Journal of Environmental Education (AJEE), first published in 1984, is a rich source for investigating the history of environmental education in Australia, as it has sampled research and writings in the field since the Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) was established in 1980.

scholarly journals Editor's welcome, PORTAL, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 2005

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Allatson ◽  
Jo McCormack
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
National Identities ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Editorial Committee ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

This special issue of PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, jointly edited by Jo McCormack and Paul Allatson, is dedicated to exile and social transformation. Some of the papers presented here derive from a highly successful workshop and symposium on exile held at the Institute for International Studies, University of Technology Sydney, in July and December 2004. Others arrived in response to a call for papers sent out in early 2004, which attracted a great deal of attention. We would like to thank all those involved at the first two events for their productive discussions and feedback, and extend our thanks to the many people who responded to the call for papers on the topic. The next issue of PORTAL will also be a special issue, “Strange Localities: Utopias, Intellectuals and National Identities in the 21st Century,” with three guest editors: Alistair Fox (University of Otago), Murray Pratt (University of Technology, Sydney), and Hilary Radner (University of Otago). And, as always, we would like to encourage practitioners of international studies and cultural producers working anywhere in the world, and in any of the PORTAL languages, to submit material for future issues. Finally, and returning to this issue’s special theme, it was with great sadness that we learned from one of the contributors to this issue, Sue Hajdú, of her father’s recent death. Sue’s critical and creative meditation on her father’s status as a Hungarian exile is one of this issue’s highlights. On behalf of the members of the Portal Editorial Committee, this special issue is dedicated to him. Paul Allatson, Chair, PORTAL Editorial Committee

Case Study: Calculating the Ecological Footprint of the 2004 Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) Biennial Conference

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Andrew Rickard
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Biennial Conference ◽  
Australian Association ◽  
The Social ◽  
Future Events ◽  
Event Tourism ◽  
Economic Perspectives

AbstractEvent tourism is accompanied by social, economic and environmental benefits and costs. The assessment of this form of tourism has however largely focused on the social and economic perspectives, while environmental assessments have been bound to a destination-based approach. The application of the Ecological Footprint methodology allows for these environmental assessment boundaries to be extended. This case study applies the footprint methodology to the Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) Biennial Conference held in Adelaide in 2004. The results of the case study provide important insight into the planning and delivery of future events for the Association and event managers.

Still ‘Minding the Gap’ Sixteen Years Later: (Re)Storying Pro-Environmental Behaviour

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Siegel ◽  
Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles ◽  
Anne Bellert
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Australian Journal ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Environmental Educators

AbstractIn their seminal 2002 paper, Kollmuss and Agyeman asked the important question ‘Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behaviour?’ The article has had a remarkably high rate of readership, with 64,900 electronic views to date, and 16 years later, this question remains significant. But are environmental educators and researchers any closer to understanding why people engage in pro-environmental behaviour? For this special issue of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education and its focus on ecologising education, it is timely not only to re-explore but to (re)story the concepts of environmental knowledge, environmental awareness and pro-environmental behaviour, in order to generate fertile ground for the creation of new understandings and practices in environmental education. After considering relevant literature published between 2000 and 2018, this article offers an original framework for considering the complex, varied, and interconnected influences on the development of pro-environmental behaviour by (re)storying the development of pro-environmental behaviour through articulating it as a living forest.

scholarly journals Thinking in dark times: Assessing the transdisciplinary legacies of Zygmunt Bauman

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Griselda Pollock ◽  
Mark Davis
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Zygmunt Bauman ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

In 2018, the Bauman Institute and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH), both based at the University of Leeds (UK), initiated a transdisciplinary programme to assess the legacies of Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017), whose prolific writings we felt to be profoundly relevant to the multiple challenges of the 21st century. In this special issue of Thesis Eleven, we are marking just over three years since the death of Zygmunt Bauman by bringing together some of the contributions to that programme in order to revisit, elaborate, and crucially to extend his intellectual archive. Taking Bauman’s revision of contemporary social realities as a point of departure, each of the participants in this special issue re-examine – critically but also generously – the many questions Bauman asked, tried to answer, and imbued on the way with new and sometimes shocking insights. This paper surveys those contributions by way of introducing the special issue.

Religious Narrative

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Armin Geertz
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Religious Narrative ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of

This introduction to the special issue on narrative discusses various ways of approaching religious narrative. It looks at various evolutionary hypotheses and distinguishes between three fundamental aspects of narrative: 1. the neurobiological, psychological, social and cultural mechanisms and processes, 2. the many media and methods used in human communication, and 3. the variety of expressive genres. The introduction ends with a definition of narrative.

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