DOCUMENT RESUME SE 041 924 ED 229 282 Sacks, Arthur B., And Others AUTHOR Current Issues in Environmental Education and TITLE Environmental Studies. Volume VIII. Selected Papers from the Annual Conference of the National Association for Environmental Education (11th, Silver Bay, New York, October 15-20, 1982). ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics, and INSTITUTION Environmental Education, Columbus, Ohio.; National Association for Environmental Education, Troy, Ohio. National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC. SPONS AGENCY Aug 83 PUB DATE 400-78-0004 CONTRACT 309p. NOTE Information Reference Center (ERIC/IRC), The Ohio AVAILABLE FROM State Univ., 1200 Chambers Rd., 3rd Floor, Columbus, OH 43212 ($7.75). Conference Proceedings (021) -- Collected Works PUB TYPE ERIC Information Analysis Information Analyses Products (071) -- Reports - General (140) MF01/PC13 Plus Postage. EDRS PRICE Attitude Measures; Citizen Participation; DESCRIPTORS *Conservation Education; Curriculum Development; Elementary Secondary Education; Energy; *Environmental Education; *Global Approach; Higher Education; Instructional Development; *Literature Reviews; Nonformal Education; Postsecondary Education; *Program Descriptions; Science Education; *Teacher Education; Training Methods; Undergraduate Study Acid Rain; *Environmental Education Research IDENTIFIERS ABSTRACT Provided in three major sections are selected papers Association for presented at the 1982 Conference of the National inVited Environmental Education. The first part contains four related to addresses on environmental issues and two symposium papers of addresses focus on the Global 2000 Report to the President. Topics education/citizen participation, acid rain, and the Reagan Administration's environmental policy. The seven essays that follow education give the practitioner's perspective on k.nvironmental in the final section are programs, approaches, and issues. Included presented.in four 14 research and evaluation papers. These are of subsections focusing on: (1) environmental history (Unsung Heroes education research the Environmental Movement); (2) environmental research problems and issues, including an analysis of 10 years of Environmental Education; reported in volumes 3-12 of the Journal of (3) inservice teacher education; and (4) four additional research/evaluation papers: a summary of arguments against use of investigation of values clarification in public education; an relationships between sex-role identification and degree of technique environmental concern, knowledge, and personal commitment; discussion of for facilitating citizen participation; and a of the photovoltaics in the soft energy path. Appended is a list Series. (JN) "Selected repot's" volumes in the "Current Issues" r\J c0 CURRENT ISSUES U S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION in Environmental Education NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION and Environmental Studies ICENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the persOn or organization Volume VIII originating it Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality poinis of view or opinions stated in this docu- ment do not nectssanly represent offictal NIE position or policy Selected Papers from. the Eleventh Annual Conference of the National Association for Environmental Education Edited by Arthur B. Sacks Louis A. Iozzi Richard J. Wilke with a Foreword by Reid A. Bryson The National Association for Environmental Education P.O. Box 400 Troy, Ohio 45373 Published by ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education The Ohio State University College of Education and School of Natural Resources "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS GR NTED BY MATERIAL HAS BE 1200 Chambers Road, 3rd Floor Columbus, Ohio 43212 August 1983 TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." 2 arroirarrmillroba.11.0.irearaualali Environmental Education Information Reports Environmental Education Information Reports are issued to analyze and summarize information related to the teaching and learning of environmental education. It is hoped that these reviews will provide information for personnel involved in development, ideas for teachers, and indications of trends in environmental education. Your comments and suggestions for this series are invited. John F. Disinger Associate Direccor, ERIC/SMEAC Environmental Education ********************* . This publication was prepared with funding from the National Institute of Education, U.S. Department of Education under contract no. 400-78-0004. The opinions !ixpressed in this report do not necessarily reflectthe positio.,s or policies of NIE or U.S. Department of Education. , S. 3 1 Preface to Volume VIII: Changes on the H-,rizon The Eleventh Annual Conference of the National Association for Environmental Education (NAEE) was held 15-20 October 1982 at Silver Bay, New York. Approximately 250 individuals from 31 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, West Germany, and India participated. We were especially pleased that Dr. Desh Bandhu, President of the Indian Environmental Society and Secretary of the Asian Environmental Society, and Swami Yuktananda, Founder of the Center for Value Orientation and Environmental Education in Calcutta, were both able to attend. The essays in this volume represent the best of the Conference papers submitted for editorial consideration. Current Issues has been designed.to provide both environmental applications -- the practitioner's perspective -- and the findings of original research and scholarly analysis the researcher's perspective. Our goal has been to integrate in one Volume the exploration of issues facing environmental educators with sound environmentally-related research and scholarship. The volume serves a community which consists of elementary and secondary educators, those associated with non-formal educational establishments -- public agencies, nature centers, non-governmental environmental groups and organizations -- and environmental scientists and researchers associated with colleges, universities, and research establishments in the public and private sectors. This community is represented in the membership and sectional structure of NAEE. The make-up of the editorial staff and marmscript reviewers who have kindly volunteered their time and talent have been selected so as to insure that the breadth of interests and expertise is wide enough to accomodate NAEE's diverse membership and the wide range of papers presented at our annual Conference. Last year the Current I5sues format was slightly altered. In addition to a section on Environmental Education Applications -- The Practitioner's Perspective, and a section on Research and Evaluation -- Refereed Papers, Volume VII included a section .)f Invited Addresses and Symposia. We have continued this approach and are pleased to be able to provide our readers with the addresses presented at the Eleventh Annual Conference by Robert F. Flacke, Commissioner of New York State's Department of Environmental Consercation; the Honourable John A. Fraser, member of the Canadian Parliament for Vancouver South; David Hawkins, Senior Staff Attorney with the National Resources Defense Council; and Senator Gaylord Nelson, Chairman of the Wilderness Society. In addition, we are pleased to be able to include presentations from an invited symposium on Global 2000. This year we have also been ablc: to continue the practice of inviting a guest "Foreword" from a figure prominent among the environmental community to comment on environmental education and important relevant issues. This year we feature Professor Reid A. Bryson, Director of the Institute for iii 4 Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Bryson is internationally recognized for his work in meteorology and long range climatic forecasting. He was one of the nation's small core of distinguished scholars who first realized the need for both interdisciplinary environmental studies and for new mechanisms and institutions designed to engage in such study. We are most pleased that Professor Bryson accepted our invitation. Although the Current Issues series has met many of the needs of NAEE, the proceedings format necessarily has never fully been able to capture the potential of possible publications from an organization such as ours. Though the editorial staff has sought over the years to enhance the publication's quality, raising editorial standards by developing a mechanism for peer review, still, as a conference proceedings, Current Issues is limited, open only to those able to attend the annual Conference and present papers, panels, and symposia. Those in the environmental community who have much to offer, but who Jlave not been members of NAEE, or who are members and have been unable to attend, particularly in difficult financial times, have been unable to reach NAEE's membership through our own professional publications. NAEE's Publications Committee therefore this year sought to remedy this situation with a change in NAEE's overall publication strategy. The Committee's three-part recommendation was adopted by the Board of Directors at Silver Bay: In addition to an annual Conference proceedings (Current Issues) and a periodic newsletter (the Environmental Communicator), the Publications Committee would develop a monograph series.,Papers would be published either occasionally and/or as an annual review of the best work representing research, theory, and practice in environmental education and environmental studies. Papers would be solicited by an editorial board representative of NAEE's sectional structure. All papers would be subject to peer review. Membership in NAEE and attendance at NAEE Conferences would not be required for authors publishing in the monograph series. We believe that this array of publications will better serve NAEE membership and the environmental community at large. We believe that this new venture represents the direction of "maturing influence" to which Professor Bryson refers in his Foreword. We could not close this Preface without a vote of appreciation to John Disinger, Associate Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education at The Ohio State University, for his very able assistance. ERIC has supported NAEE and Current Issues since its beginnings, and there is little doubt that NAEE owes ERIC, The Ohio State University, and John Disinger more than it can repay. Likewise, we wish to acknowledge the suppoxt of the institutions which are the academic homes of the editors: The Institute for Environmental Studies of the iv University of Wisconsin-Madison; The Institute for Science, Technology and Social Science Education of Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey; and the College of Natural Resources of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Their positive contributions in staff time, facilities, and supplies and expenses continue to make a quality Current ISsues effort a poSsibility. Arthur B. Sacks, Chair, NAEE Publications Committee Louis A. Iozzi Richard J.-Wilke Editors; Current Issues VIII December 1982 National Association for Environmental Education Board of Directors Curtis D. Abdouch, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, DC Teresa M. Auldridge, Virginia Department of Education, Richmond, VA William G. Berberet, Williamette University, Salem, OR Dorothy A. Cox, Clarenceville Junior High School, Farmington Hills, MI Donald F. Darling, Helena School District 1/1, Helena, MT John F. Disinger, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH A. Joy Finlay, Environmental and Outdoor Education Council, Alberta, Canada Kenneth Frazier, Ames Public Schools, Ames, IA David L. Hanselman, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY Martin Hetherington, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Lynn M. hodges, Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, TN Lillabelle A. Holt, The Ohio State University, Newark, OH John Hug, Ohio Department of Education, ColuMbus, OH Louis A. Iozzi, Rutgers-The State University, New Brunswick, NJ Carol A. Lively, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Denver, CO Edward McCrea, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC Arthur B. Sacks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Karl E. Schwaab, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA Alan M. Schwartz, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY Talbert B. Spence, Wave Hill Center for Environmental Studies, Bronx, NY William B. Stapp, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Howard Teague, Bemidji, MN ,Vicki K. Vine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Richard J. Wilke, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI Executive Committee President Judith M. Schultz, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Executive Vice President Joan M. Heidelberg, Brukner Nature Center, Troy, OH Immediate Past President Craig B. Davis, Iowa State University, Ames, IA President-Elect William B. Stapp, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Secretary Arthur B. Sacks, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Treasurer John F. Disinger, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Member-at-Large William G. Berberet, Williamette University, Salem, OR Member-at-Large Louis A. Iozzi, Rutgers-The State University, New Brunswick, NJ Member-at-Large Talbert B. Spence, Wave Hill Center for Environmental Studies, Bronx, NY Current Issues in Environmental Education and Environmental Studies, Volume VIII - EDITORS: Dr. Arthur B. Sacks Administrator of Academic Programs Institute for Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison 70 Science Hall Madison, WI 53706 Dr. Louis A. Iozzi Associate Professor of Science and Environmental Education Cook College Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Dr. Richard J. Wilke Associate Professor of Environmental Education Director, Central Wisconsin Environmental.Station College of Natural Resources University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Stevens Point, WI 54481 SPECIAL ASSISTANCE: Ms. Eileen Hanneman Departmental Secretary Institute for Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison Ms. Leslie Paradise Secretary Institute for Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison COVER SKETCH: Jackie Fourman* Staff Artist Brukner Nature Center Troy, OH 4537-b 1983 Conference Crossroads: Society and Technology Crossroads: Society and Technology has been identified as the theme for the Twelfth Annual Conference of the National Association for Environmental Education, scheduled for September 30-October 5, 1983, at the Hoyt Conference Center, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan. Subthemes are: Ecological Effects of Technology Culture and Technology The Built Environment Technology and Resources For information concerning the program, contact the Conference Program Chairperson: Dr. John H. Baldwin University of Oregon 156 Hendricks Eugene, OR 97403 (503)484-4288 Each of NAEE's three sections is participating both in conference planning and in the organization and presentation of pre-conference activities. Contact: For the Environmental Studies Section Dr. Richard L. Perrine, Engr. 1, Room 2066, University of California, Los Angeles 90024; (213)825-2636; For the Elementary and Secondary Education Section - Dr. Lillabelle Holt, The Ohio State University, Newark, OH 43055; (614)366-3321; For the Non-formal Education Section - Mr. Edward McCrea, 10718 Ashby Place, Fairfax, VA 22030; (202)343-7116. Other conference-related information, including registration informaiion, may be obtained from: Joan M. Heidelberg, Executive Vice-President National Association for Environmental Education P.O. Box 400 Troy, OH 45373 (513)698-6493 viii 9 Reviewers The editors would like to thank those listed below who have graciously volunteered their services as reviewers for the Current Issues series. Reviewers are selected from within NAEE ranks and from without in an attempt to bring a broad scope of scholarly and professional expertise to bear upon submitted papers. Curtis D. Abdouch National Wildlife Federation Was:Lington, D.C. 20036 John H. Baldwin Environmental Studies University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 Janey M.Y. Cheu Center for Coastal and Environmental Studies Cook College Rutgers The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 Craig B. Davis Environmental Studies Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 Arthur W. Edwards Associate Dean of Instruction Cook College Rutgers The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 Michael P. Gross School of Education University of Winsconsin-Stevens Point Stevens Point, WI 54481 Mark Hanson Energy Systems and Policy Programs Energy Research Center University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706 Harold R. Hungerford Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Media Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 ix 10