Environmental education evaluation: Time to reflect, time for change

Evaluation and Program Planning

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-158

  Crohn, Kara ^a   Birnbaum, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b National Fish and Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Communitarianism; Environmental education; Environmental evaluation; Evaluation capacity building; Program theory evaluation; Retrenchment; Utilization focused evaluation

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; POLITICAL REFORM; PUBLIC SECTOR;

ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; ECOLOGY; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; POLITICS; UNITED STATES;

CAPACITY BUILDING; ECOLOGY; POLITICS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74449093005     PISSN: 01497189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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