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Where Are Children and Young People in Environmental Education Research?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2014

Amy Cutter-Mackenzie
Amy Cutter-Mackenzie*
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Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland, Australia
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In 1984, the Australian Journal of Environmental Education commenced. At that time I was 6 years old, in my first year of primary school at Tieri State School in Central Western Queensland. I knew nothing of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education (AJEE), or environmental education for that matter (at least not in a formal sense). In many respects, I was perhaps part of the intended audience (the future generation). As was the case with many children of my generation (Generation X, on the cusp of Generation Y), environmental education at school was largely incidental. Having grown up in a mining town (from 1983 to 1991), environmental conservation was certainly not a welcomed perspective. All the same though, my childhood was free, untamed and unsupervised in the Australian bush. It was that pastime or playtime where my environmental consciousness began its emergence.

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Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , July 2014 , pp. 103 - 105
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2014 

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