Kennelly A, Julie

Taylor, Neil

Maxwell, Tom

Serow, Penelope A

2012

Aspects of environment are common topics in Australian primary schools. However Education for Sustainability (EfS), where students actively investigate the underlying causes of unsustainable practices and actively plan for and instigate change, is less well understood and less commonly practised. It cannot be assumed that pre-service teachers have the knowledge, skills and desire to incorporate EfS, as advocated in Australian policies, into their repertoires of practice, or, that they will acquire those skills as they gain teaching experience. Therefore for EfS to become an integral component of the primary school experience, carefully planned rather than ad hoc preparation for EfS is necessary in pre-service teacher education.

Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 28(1), p. 57-58

2049-775X

0814-0626

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22801

en

Cambridge University Press

Education for Sustainability and Pre-Service Teacher Education

Journal Article

Publication