Abstract

Ont-dekken en toe-dekken: Leren over de veelvormige relatie van mensen met natuur in NME-leertrajecten duurzame ontwikkeling. The objective of the explorative development research, that is described in this dissertation, was to design a structure which underlies a theoretically sound and generally applicable guideline for environmental education learning trajectories in sustainable development. Furthermore, aspects that have played a role in this re-contextualisation process of sustainable development as learning content for environmental education have been described. The objective of this was to gain insight into the possible ways of conduct that can stimulate the course of this innovative development in environmental education practices. The proposition is put forward that in the practice of environmental education two motives for acting can be distinguished: environmental education as a moralistic and as an educational task. Due to, on the one hand, the objections against environmental education as a moralistic task and, on the other hand, the connection between the two motives for acting, it is necessary to make explicit how the educational task in the working out of environmental education learning trajectories can be safeguarded. Therefore, the relationship between acting and providing meaning is further considered, after which a description is provided of two key concepts of an educational or school practice: knowledge and learning. Based on this, the educational task of environmental education can be described from a theoretical perspective. Using the concepts sustainability and sustainable development, and the subject matter connected to this, a policy development has been put into motion with consequences for the practice of environmental education-in-action. It is made explicit that the manner in which the two concepts are used in policies is not directly applicable to environmental education practices. The reason for this provides insight into the way in which both concepts can in fact be meaningful