Education for Sustainability: The Role of School Geography in Environmental Education

Resumen

The generalization of environmental problems at world scale has aroused increasing calls for environmental education which could play a part in resolving such problems and aiding the transition to sustainable development. Thanks to its traditional role as the major vehicle whereby young people learn of the relationship between different societies and the natural world, school geography offers enormous potential to realize this objective provided appropriate theory and practice are applied. A critica1 and emancipatory environmental education and school geography could, therefore, play a role in the overall struggle to establish sustainability with democracy and justice. The article explores these topics in the context of recent developments in environmental and geographical education in Britain.