Sustaining an Environmental Ethic: Outdoor and Environmental Education Graduates' Negotiation of School Spaces

Autor/in	Preston, Lou
Titel	Sustaining an Environmental Ethic: Outdoor and Environmental Education Graduates' Negotiation of School Spaces
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 27 (2011) 2, S.199-208 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
DOI	10.1375/ajee.27.2.199
Schlagwörter	Outdoor Education; Interviews; Followup Studies; Ethics; College Graduates; Attitude Change; Physical Education Teachers; Secondary School Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Education Courses; Beginning Teachers; Teaching Conditions; School Culture; Adjustment (to Environment); Environmental Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freiluftunterricht; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Ethik; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Physical education; Physical training; Teacher; Teachers; Sportlehrer; Lehrerverhalten; Fortbildungskurs; Junior teacher; Junglehrer; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik
Abstract	In this article, I draw on interviews with graduates from an Outdoor and Environmental Education course to explore the ways in which their environmental ethics changed since leaving university. I do this in relation to the graduates' personal and professional experiences, particularly in the context of teaching Outdoor Education and Physical Education in secondary schools. By offering two alternative readings of graduates' experiences, this research contributes to existing education literature about the "wash-out effect" of teacher education courses once beginning teachers become immersed in schools. In the first reading I find evidence of regulatory and normalising strategies of society and school communities and a "plateauing" of graduates' engagement with environmental practices. In a second reading, framed by Foucault's theory of power and ethics, I discern acts of "tactical" resistance. This reading foregrounds strategies graduates use to negotiate the constraining spaces of schools. (As Provided).
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