The perplexity of sponsored environment education: A critical view on Hong Kong and its future

The perplexity of sponsored environment education: A critical view on Hong Kong and its future

• Lai, On Kwok Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan

Environmental Education Research, 4(3), 269-284, 1998

Routledge

1998

• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RJ Other Educational Organization
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GJ Interdisciplinary

Environmental Education Foreign Countries Futures (of Society) Lifelong Learning Mass Media Nongovernmental Organizations Political Influences Postsecondary Education Science and Society Scientific Literacy Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This study critically examines Hong Kong's environmental education initiatives beyond schooling in the last 5 years with reference to the engagement of environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in this process under an emerging sponsorship regime. It highlights that the manifested form and mode of environmen-talism in general and environmental education in particular are embedded within the socio-political context of colonial governance, the proliferation of green ideas and the local adaptation of ideas of environmental education. It is observed and argued that environmental education programmes in the last 5 years, promoted mainly in the mass media domain, have been partially successful in changing people's perception on environmental affairs, but environmental groups' autonomy is questioned under a sponsorship regime. The paper ends with remarks on the future of environmental education under a new political regime in 1997 and beyond.
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• English

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• 10.1080/1350462980040303

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2010-09-27