AltaMira Press
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John H. Falk is Sea Grant Professor in Free-Choice Learning at Oregon State University and founder and former president of the Institute for Learning Innovation. He is co-author of Thriving in the Knowledge Age, Lessons without Limit, and Free-Choice Science Education, as well as co-editor of In Principle, In Practice: Museums as Learning Institutions. Joe E. Heimlich is a senior research associate at the Institute for Learning Innovation. He has worked in the field of free-choice environmental education for fifteen years. Susan Foutz is a research associate at the Institute for Learning Innovation and is co-editor of In Principle, In Practice.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Free-Choice Learning and the Environment
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Who is th Free-Choice Environmental Education Learner?
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Fostering Empathy with Wildlife: Factors Affecting Free-Choice Learning for Conservation Concern and Behavior
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Behavior Change Theories and Free-Choice Environmental Learning
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. From Mission to Practice
Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Tools of Engagement: How Education and Other Social Strategies Can Engage People in Conservation Action
Chapter 8 Chapter 7. How Can Participatory Action Research Inform Free-Choice Learning Pedagogy and Research in Environmental Education Contexts?
Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Environmental Literacy through the Lens of Aquarium Ocean Literacy Efforts
Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Free-Choice Environmental Learning in Practice: Research to inform environmental education practice
Chapter 11 Chapter 10. Future Directions for Research in Free-Choice Environmental Learning
Chapter 12 Chapter 11. The Federal Government and Free-Choice Learning
Free-Choice Learning and the Environment is essential reading for environmental educators. From theory to practice and implementation, and the application of research, it brings to light, in a highly easy-to-read format, the power and necessity of free-choice learning for understanding and addressing the multitude of issues we face in our environment.
— Brian A. Day, North American Association for Environmental Education
This well-researched book with an extensive, impressive bibliography is an excellent scholarly venture into free-choice learning about the environment. Recommended.
— Choice Reviews
This collection of well-known and esteemed authors provides timely and much-needed theoretical, scientific, and practical understanding of the learning that occurs in zoos, botanical gardens, parks, and other popular settings where people experience nature in largely informal and unstructured ways. For many people today, these settings represent one of the most important ways of experiencing nature. This book provides a window into how these areas affect us and, importantly, can be enhanced to provide a more meaningful and lasting understanding and appreciation of the natural world.
— Stephen Kellert, Yale University