caa a22 4500 388050586 CHVBK 20180307125052.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0814062600003918 doi S0814062600003918 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0814062600003918 Payne Phillip La Trobe University Bendigo Childrens' Conceptions of Nature [Elektronische Daten] [Phillip Payne] This paper describes a study of sixth grade children's conceptions of nature and the environment. In so doing, it asks that environmental educators pay more attention to children's preconceived notions of environment and nature. Should this occur the theory-practice gap in environmental education may be diminished. Learners' concepts of ‘nature' and the ‘environment' provide a needed perspective for the development of individually and contextually appropriate teaching and learning strategies in environmental education. Without knowledge of them it is not clear whose version of environment it is which the learner is being educated ‘in', ‘about', ‘with' or ‘for'. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Australian Journal of Environmental Education Cambridge University Press 14(1998), 19-26 0814-0626 14<19 1998 14 AEE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0814062600003918 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0814062600003918 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Payne Phillip La Trobe University Bendigo NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Australian Journal of Environmental Education Cambridge University Press 14(1998), 19-26 0814-0626 14<19 1998 14 AEE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge