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- Title: Sense of Place in Australian Environmental Education Research: Distinctive, Missing Or Displaced? (Report)
- Author : Australian Journal of Environmental Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 92 KB
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Introduction In reflecting on the question of what might be unique or distinctive about Australian environment-related education research, the influence of the uniqueness of the Australian environment first came to mind. Perhaps this was because of the landscape I had missed during an extended residency overseas or because my extensive experience in another country's education system highlighted numerous commonalities rather than many distinctive features of Australian education. And my observations suggested that differences in educational research seem to be more related to factors associated with institutional (and department) cultures and identities rather than characteristics of nation states. So a potential source of any distinctive identity for environmental education research seemed at first to rest on connections Australian environmental educators might feel to place--to the biophysical and cultural landscape of this country. Here I refer not to the vernacular understanding or the pastoral view of landscape as separate and distanced but as linked to part of our identity as Australians.