Description
Book SynopsisIn this important intervention, change-agent Marianne E. Krasny challenges the knowledge-attitudes-behavior pathway that underpins much of environmental education practice; i.e., the assumption that environmental knowledge and attitudes lead to environmental behaviors. Krasny shows that certain types of knowledge are more likely than others to influence behaviors, and that generally it is more effective to work with existing attitudes than to try to change them. The chapters expand the purview of potential outcomes of environmental education beyond knowledge and attitudes to include nature connectedness, sense of place, efficacy, identity, norms, social capital, youth assets, and individual wellbeing.
Advancing Environmental Education Practice also shows how, by constructing theories of change for their environmental education programs, environmental educators can target specific intermediate outcomes likely to lead to environmental behaviors and collective action, and
Table of Contents
Introduction
Getting Started
1. Theory of Change
2. Evaluation
Environment and Behavior/Action Outcomes
3. Environment, Sustainability, and Climate Change
4. Environmental Behaviors
5. Collective Environmental Action
Intermediate Outcomes
6. Knowledge and Thinking
7. Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes
8. Nature Connectedness
9. Sense of Place
10. Efficacy
11. Identity
12. Norms
13. Social Capital
14. Positive Youth Development
15. Health and Well-Being
Conclusion: Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation
