- Title
- An analysis of elementary teachers' understanding of citizenship and environmental issues: a perspective from Indonesia
- Creator
- Kusmawan, Udan; Reynolds, Ruth
- Relation
- The Social Educator Vol. 26, Issue 2, p. 4-10
- Relation
- http://www.afssse.asn.au/seaa
- Publisher
- Social Educators' Association of Australia
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- It is important that individual citizens connect environmental values with national governmental policies via active participation supporting the quality of the natural environment. This paper presents research results from a small provincial city in Indonesia where issues associated with environmental sustainable development were considered by elementary school teachers. The results indicated that even though the teachers expressed a clear awareness of the need to be environmentally aware, they did not appreciate the connection between the environment and the broader economic and social aspects of citizenship. Nor did they exhibit an understanding of the interrelated nature of issues from a local to a global perspective. The study raised a number of crucial questions. To what extent do these teachers, and perhaps teachers elsewhere, see themselves to be citizens of a suburb, a city, a nation or of the globe? Is environmental education an approach that will be seen differently in Western and developing societies? How best can we assist teachers to consider their own personal responsibilities as environmental citizens?
- Subject
- environmental values; governmental policies; teachers; citizenship
- Identifier
- uon:5080
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/42946
- Identifier
- ISSN:1328-3480
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