Making sustainability ‘real’: using group-enquiry to promote education for sustainable development

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 482-500

  Ellis, Geraint ^a   Weekes, Tony ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

action competence; education for sustainable development; planning; sustainable regeneration

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650244486     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504620802308287     Document Type: Article

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