Environmental and Sustainability Education in Francophone Europe

This book presents eleven contributions illustrating the main areas of research in French-speaking Europe in the field of environmental and sustainability education (ESE).

It argues that although research in the field of ESE is well established, it is not yet structured at a national level, whether in France, Belgium or Switzerland. The main issues addressed by the contributors are presented with a view to establishing a dialogue with the Anglophone community. Three avenues are identified: (i) exploring the place of ESE in education systems, in terms of a continuum of education, (ii) exploring the specificities of ESE teaching practices, and (iii) exploring teacher education and training practices. The contributions suggest a number of courses of action and prospects for encouraging debate between both researchers and language communities, ranging from collaboration and shared research programmes to a reworking of educational concepts and practices, and initial and continuing professional development, in relation to pressing pedagogical, social and environmental challenges.

This volume will be a key resource for educators, policymakers, scholars and advanced students of environmental and sustainability education and teacher education and training. It was originally published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research

Alain Pache is Professor of Geographical Education and Education for Sustainability at the University of Teacher Education State of Vaud, Lausanne (Switzerland). He is head of the Didactics of the Humanities and Social Sciences teaching unit and head of the International Research Laboratory on Education for Sustainability (LirED). He is also a member of the Council of the Swiss Society for Educational Research. His research focuses on teaching and learning processes in the fields of Geographical Education and Education for Sustainability, with a special interest in the role of language in the classroom and the development of children’s thinking.

Anne Glaudel is Lecturer in educational sciences at the University of Reims Champagne Ardenne (France). Based at the Centre for Studies and Research on Jobs and Professionalizations (CEREP). She focuses on the actual practices of teaching geography in the school context and on Education for the Environment and Sustainable Development. She studies language productions about space and environment: language interactions between teacher and pupils, discourse of students and teachers in vocational training, and graphic representations of pupils.

Christine Partoune is Honorary Professor-researcher of Didactics in Geography both at the University of Liège and at the Haute Ecole Libre mosane, in Liège. She is a member of the Research Center in Education and Training relating to the environment and eco-citizenship (Centr'ErE-UQAM) and of the Research Unit in Didactics and Teacher Training (Didactifen - ULiège). Her recent research focuses on environmental education, particularly on landscape education and on place-based and community-based learning.

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