Environmental education review - formal education sector (schools)

A Curriculum Review of Environmental Education
Curriculum Corporation
for Environment Australia, 2003

References

General
State Documents on Environmental Education
Curriculum Documents

General

Australian Education Council (1991). Studies of Society and Environment Curriculum Map. Melbourne: Curriculum Corporation.

Curriculum Corporation (1991). Environmental Education Materials. A guide for Australian Schools. Melbourne: Curriculum Corporation.

Curriculum Corporation (2000). Formal Education Sector Ozone Review. Melbourne: Curriculum Corporation.

Department of Environment and Heritage (1999). Today Shapes tomorrow: Environmental Education for a Sustainable Future - A discussion paper. Canberra: Environment Australia.

Department of Environment and Heritage (2000). Environmental Education for a Sustainable Future: National Action Plan. Canberra: Environment Australia.

Gough, A. (1997). Education and the Environment: Policy, Trends and the Problems of Marginalisation. Melbourne: Australian Council for Education Research.

Griffith University and the Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories, (1997). Teaching for a Sustainable World: International Edition.
http://www.ea.gov.au/education/publications/tsw/modules/index.html

Ministry of Victoria (1990). Mapping the Australian Curriculum. Audit and Evaluation of Environmental Education Materials.

Tilbury, D. (1995). Environmental Education for Sustainability: Defining a new focus of Environmental Education in the 1990s. Environmental Education Research, 1(2) 195-212.

UNESCO (1997) Educating for a Sustainable Future: A transdisciplinary Vision for concerted action. A paper prepared by USESCO in its function as Task Manager for chapter 36 of Agenda 21.

Yencken, D., Fien, J. and Sykes, H. (2000). Environment, Education and Society in the Asia-Pacific. London: Routledge.

State documents on environmental education

Queensland

Environmental Education in Queensland Schools (1989).
Teaching for Ecologically Sustainable Development. Guidelines for Years 11-12 Geography (1992).

New South Wales

The Environmental Schools Program (1996).
Eco Schools Program (1998 Update).
Environmental Education Centres Policy Statement (1998).
Best Practice in Environmental Education in NSW schools (1998).
Environmental Education Policy for Schools (2001).
Implementing the Environmental Education Policy in your school (2001).
Support for the Environmental Education Policy: Science 7-12 (2001).
Support for the Environmental Education Policy: Technological and Applied Studies (2001).
Support for the Environmental Education Policy: Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (2001).
Support for the Environmental Education Policy: Creative Arts (2001).
Support for the Environmental Education Policy: HSIE (2001).
Support for the Environmental Education Policy: English (2001).
Support for the Environmental Education Policy: Mathematics (2001).
Support for the Environmental Education Policy: Languages (2001).

Victoria

Investing in the Future: Environmental Education for Victoria's Schools (May 1998).

South Australia

Environment: A handbook for teachers (1991).
Educating about, in and for the environment (1995).
Sustainable Environmental Education (1998).

Western Australia

Draft Environmental Education Guidelines (1994).
Environmental Education. A Discussion Paper (December 2000).

Curriculum Update: implementation of the National Action Plan for environmental education

Websites: State and Territory curriculum documents

Australian Capital Territory

K-10
The ACT framework for each of the learning areas works in conjunction with the nationally developed Profiles in the learning areas.
http://www.decs.act.gov.au/publicat/acpframeworks.htm

Years 11 and 12
http://www.decs.act.gov.au/bsss/bssscrs.htm