After the Smoke Clears: Toward Education for Sustainable Development in Bhopal, India

Autor/inn/en	Iyengar, Radhika; Bajaj, Monisha
Titel	After the Smoke Clears: Toward Education for Sustainable Development in Bhopal, India
Quelle	In: Comparative Education Review, 55 (2011) 3, S.424-456 (33 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-4086
DOI	10.1086/660680
Schlagwörter	Environmental Education; Textbooks; Social Sciences; Natural Sciences; Foreign Countries; Sustainable Development; Educational Policy; National Curriculum; Citizenship; Fuels; Hazardous Materials; Industry; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Naturwissenschaften; Ausland; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Staatsbürgerschaft; Treibstoff; Hazardous substance; Gefahrstoff; Industrie; Indien
Abstract	This article examines approaches to environmental education in Bhopal, India. It is an attempt to understand how much environmental education as a topic has been incorporated into formal curricula. An analysis of state and national syllabi indicates a focus on conventional, natural sciences approaches to the environment, thus neglecting the social science aspects of education for sustainable development across all grade levels. Environmental disasters are given a very general treatment with no contextual link to incidents like the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984. Social dimensions like environmental citizenship are also minimally mentioned. Finally, the article highlights the large gap between national educational policy frameworks and the actual incorporation of environmental education in state and national textbooks. (Contains 11 footnotes, 3 figures, and 8 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10