caa a22 4500 388050691 CHVBK 20180307125053.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S081406260000392X doi S081406260000392X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S081406260000392X Reconsidering What Feels Like Failure: Lessons From Environmental Life History [Elektronische Daten] In the research which was the original focus for this account, an ‘environmental life history' study, things turned out as expected—findings replicated previous environmental life history results. Yet the investigator in this apparently ‘successful' research, Mary Faeth Chenery, was left with questions such as "So what?” and "Have I simply reproduced the conditions which contribute to the problems I'm trying to solve?” Her colleague, Almut Beringer, has critiqued—and ‘re-viewed'—the study, setting out some reasons why the research was indeed of value. The two ‘halves' of this article open a dialogue about the value of environmental life history research, and offer some insights into qualitative research method in environmental education. In the process, implications may be drawn for environmental education and for a range of issues within qualitative research. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Chenery Mary Faeth La Trobe University Bendigo Beringer Almut La Trobe University Bendigo Australian Journal of Environmental Education Cambridge University Press 14(1998), 27-38 0814-0626 14<27 1998 14 AEE https://doi.org/10.1017/S081406260000392X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S081406260000392X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chenery Mary Faeth La Trobe University Bendigo NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Beringer Almut La Trobe University Bendigo NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Australian Journal of Environmental Education Cambridge University Press 14(1998), 27-38 0814-0626 14<27 1998 14 AEE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge