Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa

Environmental Educators are invited to submit abstracts for the 2012 EEASA Conference to be held at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Formats:

Presentations may be in the following formats:

• Short paper presentation
• workshops
• showcasing of sustainability practices
• round table discussions

Conference Streams:

Conference streams will be based on educational sub-sectors and the overall conference theme “Environmental Learning, Agency and Social Change” will be the focus of each stream. This should enable EEASA to get a holistic picture of how environmental education and training is contributing to human agency and social change across the different educational sub-sectors. Proposed streams are:

• Natural Resource Management, Biodiversity Conservation and Agriculture
• Higher Education & Training (including teacher education)
• Formal Schooling
• Informal Learning (including workplace learning, youth programmes, public awareness etc.)
• Business and Industry
• Local and National Government
• Inter-sectoral (cross-cutting) work.

Reviews:

• Abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Conference Organising Committee and will be considered based on the following criteria:
• Relevance to the field of environmental education
• Relevance to the conference theme
• Relevance to one or more sectoral streams
• Clarity of content

Submission:

Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words. Also include: title, author, contact details (e-mail address and telephone number), organisation, 4 key words and educational sub-sector (i.e. conference stream).

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Submit abstracts to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by no later than Friday 16th March 2012

Presenters will be notified of the acceptance / non-acceptance of their abstracts by 30 March 2012