Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities Experie
This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and traditions of environmental education for sustainable development principally in Chinese contexts. It highlights contexts and case studies that illuminate recent Chinese initiatives. It includes ca
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Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities: Experience with Younger Children
John Chi-Kin Lee • Michael Williams Editors
Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities: Experience with Younger Children
Editors John Chi-Kin Lee Faculty of Education Department of Curriculum & Instruction Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR, PR China
Michael Williams Faculty of Education and Health Studies Swansea University Swansea United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-4020-9685-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9686-0 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9686-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008942783 © 2009 Springer Science + Business Media B.V. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper springer.com
Children’s environmental learning in the wetland of Hong Kong
Acknowledgments
Writing and co-editing a book from its conception to completion is always a challenging task especially so when working with a number of scholars and friends from different cultures in the Chinese communities and elsewhere. First, we would like to thank all of the contributors to this book, one of the first to explore the issue of education for sustainable development in the Chinese communities: Angel Yuet-Ying Au, Gwyn Edwards, Yu Huang, Kwok-Chan Lai, Wing-Po Lam, William Hing-Tong Ma, Margaret Robertson, Shun-Mei Wang, Guang Yang, and Hongying Zeng. John Chi-Kin Lee would like to thank the Sumitomo Foundation in Japan for sponsoring the project Education for Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis of Educational Policies and Practices in Primary Schools in Japan, China and Hong Kong that helped considerably in the writing of Chapter 10. He is particularly grateful for the sponsorship provided by the Sustainable Development Fund in Hong Kong for funding the project Education for Sustainable Development in Primary Schools that provides the basic data for Chapters 8 and 9. Permission given by the WWF-China Office to use information from the Environmental Educators’ Initiatives project in Chapters 6 and 7 is deeply appreciated. He would also thank Ms. Dung Yi-Ping for allowing us to quote in Chapter 9 figures and tables from her unpublished thesis. Sincere gratitude is also extended to the schools and teachers referred to in this book who have made and are making valuable contributions to promoting education for sustainable development. For preparing the final manuscript for publication, we must thank Angel YuetYing Au and Zhonghua Zhang for their hard work, especially in indexing and proofreading. The au
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