On the need to repoliticise environmental and sustainability education: rethinking the postpolitical consensus

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 639-659

  Sund, Louise ^a   Öhman, Johan ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cosmopolitanism; environmental and sustainability education; normativity; pluralism; political; universal values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926225180     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2013.833585     Document Type: Article

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