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Environmental Issues in Finnish School Textbooks on Religious Education and Ethics

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dc.creator Essi Aarnio-Linnanvuori
dc.date 2013-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:11:34Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:11:34Z
dc.identifier 2000-9879
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/df8aea7ee7d340a2aa64929009d48004
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/14499
dc.description Solving global environmental problems requires a major change of values. As relates to environmental education, worldview, ethics and spiritual issues are important elements. But how are environmental issues included in such school subjects that especially discuss values and ethics? In this article I examine 24 Finnish religious education and ethics textbooks to analyze, to what extent environmental issues are integrated and discussed in them. I conclude that there is confusion about what environmental education can be in societal school subjects. The environmental texts in textbooks do not always draw on the specific content of the societal subject in question but repeat content from the natural sciences. Therefore, I suggest contexts and perspectives for discussing environmental issues that would comport with these subjects and supplement existing environmental education at school.
dc.language Swedish
dc.language Danish
dc.language English
dc.publisher Karlstads Universitet
dc.relation http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-27403
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2000-9879
dc.source Nordidactica : Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education, Vol 2013, Iss 2013:1, Pp 131-157 (2013)
dc.subject ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
dc.subject INTEGRATION
dc.subject TEXTBOOKS
dc.subject RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
dc.subject SECULAR ETHICS EDUCATION
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Environmental Issues in Finnish School Textbooks on Religious Education and Ethics
dc.type article


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