caa a22 4500 386312087 CHVBK 20180307111551.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198809 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S081406260000118X doi S081406260000118X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S081406260000118X Maher Mary Social Studies Department Brisbane, College of Advanced Education, Kelvin Grove, Queensland The Powers that be: Political Education Through an Environmental Study [Elektronische Daten] [Mary Maher] In its broadest sense the "environment” component of environmental education spans such diverse areas as dietary habits, in vitro fertilisation, religious beliefs, occupational health, desertification, the changing nature of work, arms control and over-population. At its best contemporary environmental scholarship highlights the degree to which all these issues are intimately related. At its worst and narrowest, the process of environmental educational consists of firstly identifying the basic features of an ecosetting for example, a rainforest, a reef or an urban waterway; and studying environmental change in that setting through identifying the goodies and baddies in relation to impacts upon that environment. An experience I had recently teaching about North Stradbroke Island highlighted the dominance that the narrow view of environmental education has attained. In discussion prior to the study, students indicated that for them, the term "environment” was basically an alternative label for flora and fauna or the "green”/natural elements of the island. They could not comment very easily then about the place of humans in this picture of environment nor could they outline in any detail the range of social, economic or political factors affecting that island's environment. Such factors were incidental to that environment.Also students' ideas about "environmental conflict” and the island seemed to be centred on examples of actions taken by one or other of the conflicting groups, through protest meetings or demonstrations, classifying the main contenders Into two camps - those for and those against the bridge. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 Australian Journal of Environmental Education Cambridge University Press 4(1988-09), 1-8 0814-0626 4<1 1988 4 AEE https://doi.org/10.1017/S081406260000118X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S081406260000118X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Maher Mary Social Studies Department Brisbane, College of Advanced Education, Kelvin Grove, Queensland NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Australian Journal of Environmental Education Cambridge University Press 4(1988-09), 1-8 0814-0626 4<1 1988 4 AEE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge