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Education, Sustainability and Civil Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

John Fien*
Affiliation:
Griffith University, Brisbane
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1 See, for example, Ulluwishewa, Rohanna, Kaloko, Abdul Aziz and Maricar, Dy Hairuni Hj Mohamed 1997, Indigenous Knowledge and Environmental Education, unpublished paper presented at National Environmental Education Workshop, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, 06 Google Scholar.

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3 Orr, D. 1992, op. cit., p. 83.

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6 Orr, D. 1992, op. cit., p. 84.

7 I am indebted to Soren Breking for the phrase ‘new generation of environmental education’. See Breiting, S. 1993, ‘A New Generation of Environmental Education: Focus on Democracy as Part of an Alternative Paradigm, in Mrazek, R., ed, Alternative Paradigms in Environmental Education Research, North American Association for Environmental Education, Troy, Ohio Google Scholar.

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13 Jensen, B. B. & Schnack, K. 1997, op. cit.

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16 Fullan with Stiegelbauer 1991, op cit., p. 354.

17 Orr (1992) op. cit., p. 83.