Experiencing Environment and Place through Children's Literature
About this ebook
This book was originally published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.
About the author
Amy Cutter-Mackenzie is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Her research interests focus on children's and teachers' thinking and experiences in environmental education in a range of contexts and spaces (including schools, garden spaces, teacher education, higher education, outdoor education, children's literature, research and early years settings). She is the editor of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education.
Phillip Payne joined Monash University, Australia, in early 2006 as the Course Director of Sport and Outdoor Recreation and Research Leader of the Movement, Environment and Community (MEC) group. He is an international editorial board member for Environmental Education Research, Journal of Environmental Education, and Australian Journal of Environmental Education. He has published and presented approximately 100 academic papers.
Alan Reid is a Senior Lecturer in Education and member of the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment, University of Bath, UK. He coordinates doctoral programmes in research methods in education, and teaches on undergraduate and graduate programmes in environmental education, technologies and learning, and research methods. His research interests focus on teachers’ thinking and practice in environmental education, and policy-related, methodological and philosophical issues in environmental education theory, research and practice. Recent co-edited publications include Participation and Learning: Perspectives on Education and the environment, health and sustainability (2008) and Researching education and the environment: retrospect and prospect (2008).
