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Technocratic Environmental Education: A Critique and Some Alternatives

Environmental education is at a crossroads after being dominated over the past two decades by a science education perspective which places blind faith in the assumptions and values of science, including its ability to deal effectively and efficiently with the environmental problems that trouble us. However, there are a number of international developments which show signs of challenging the dominance of this paradigm. These developments point toward a new approach which incorporates many elements of experiential education, and provides a great opportunity for experiential educators to contribute to the field of environmental education. However, this opportunity is attended by the equally great threat of cooptation by the applied science perspective.