Environmental Education: Transition to an Information Age. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education (15th, Eugene, Oregon, September 11-16, 1986).

Overview & Synopsis

This document contains the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAEE). The conference featured 10 keynote addresses and invited speakers, multiple workshops, panels, and symposia, and over 120 contributed presentations. The document contains 10 chapters, the first of which contains the speeches delivered by the keynote speakers as well as general session addresses. Chapter 2 is composed of a summary report of the preconference workshop. The remaining chapters contain extended abstracts of the conference presentations, including symposia and panels. The abstracts have been arranged into the following topic areas: (1) environmental education (EE) curriculum and instruction; (2) teacher education; (3) higher education and non-teaching professions; (4) environmental studies; (5) EE in the nonformal realm; (6) citizen action; (7) EE and communications; and (8) international EE. In instances where an extended abstract was not submitted, the short abstract from the conference program was included in order to provide a complete record of the conference. (TW)