Environmental Education across the Tertiary Curriculum: a process
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Environmental Education Research
- Vol. 5 (3), 319-337
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1350462990050306
Abstract
There are many examples of environmental courses in tertiary institutions, but the integration of environmental education across the range of courses has generally not occurred. The article describes a project to introduce waste minimisation education into four disciplinary‐based courses. Since waste minimisation was introduced in the context of ecological sustainability, the project provides a model for the introduction of the broader concepts of environmental education. The project began with the assumption that adequate materials were already available if staff wanted to include waste minimisation, but what was needed was a process that would guide them in the revision of their course content, and would support them in making changes. Based on the experiences of the project, approaches for integrating waste minimisation, and more generally environmental education, across tertiary curricula are presented.Keywords
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