- 著者
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原子 栄一郎
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
- 雑誌
- 環境教育 = Environmental education (ISSN:09172866)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.19, no.3, pp.88-101, 2010-03-31
- 参考文献数
- 31
- 被引用文献数
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2
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On the special occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Japanese Society of Environmental Education, systematic reviews of environmental education research were conducted. In this paper I as an editor in charge reflect on these reviews as a whole with an aim to developing an academic field on the basis of the ideas of environmental education. The following questions lead my argument: 1) What is an overall framework of the systematic reviews of environmental education research? 2) What is the ultimate goal of the reviews? 3) What mentality underlies the framework? 4) What would another mentality look like? 5) What reviews could be conducted on the premise of another mentality? and, 6) What possibilities would there be of environmental education research in the future? </br> I compare the systematic reviews of environmental education research in Japan with those conducted in the international environmental education community using English as a common language and consider the former to be underpinned by ‘instrumental mentality’ and the latter by ‘reflexive mentality.’ I also argue that there are contrastive differences between these two environmental education communities in terms of orientations in the overall framework of research reviews and the ultimate goals of the reviews. </br> I conclude the paper by suggesting that an attempt to ‘re-story’ action in the interwoven spheres of culture, environment and education, which is work across various fields of green in the environmental education and related communities, should be one of the possibilities of environmental education research in the future.