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Key reference papers in English
Breiting,
Søren (2000):
Sustainable development, Environmental Education and action competence.
Page 151-165 i Critical Environmental and Health Education. Research Issues
and Challenges, Bjarne Bruun Jensen, Karsten Schnack & Venka Simovska eds.,
The Danish University of Education 2000.
Schnack, K. (2000).
Action Competence as a Curriculum Perspective.
In: Jensen, B.B., K. Schnack, & V. Simovska, (eds.).(2000). Critical Environmental
and Health Education - Research Issues and Challenges. Danish University of
Education, Copenhagen.
Breiting, S. & F. Mogensen
(1999):
Action Competence and Environmental Education. Cambridge Journal of Education
vol. 29: Pp. 349-353.
Breiting, S. (1999):
Dilemmas related to Teacher Training for Science Education and Pupils´ Action
Competence (The MUVIN Project). Side 263-272 i Research in Science Education
in Europe, Eds.: M. Bandiera, S. Caravita, E. Torracca and M. Vicentini. Kluwer
Academic Publishers. Dordrecht.
Schnack, K. (1998).
Why focus on Conflicting Interests in Environmental Education?.
In: Mauri Ahlberg & Walter Leal Filho (eds.): Environmental Education for
Sustainability: Good Environment, Good Life, Peter Lang: Europäischer
Verlag der Wissenschaften.
Jensen, Bjarne Bruun and
Karsten Schnack (1997):
The Action Competence Approach in Environmental Education..
Environmental Education Research, vol 3, no. 2, pp. 163-178
Jensen, Bjarne Bruun:
Action, Action Competence and Change in the Field of Environmental and Health
Education. In: Jensen, B.B. & Shnack, S. (eds.): Action and Action Competence
as Key Concepts in Critical Pedagogy, 1994, pp. 73-85.
Jensen, Bjarne Bruun:
Action Competence as an Educational Challenge (in collaboration with Karsten
Schnack).
In: Jensen, B.B. & Shnack, K. (editors): Action and Action Competence as
Key Concepts in Critical Pedagogy, 1994, pp. 5-18.
Jensen, Bjarne Bruun:
Children as Catalysts of Environmental Change.
In collaboration with David Uzzell, Jean Davallon, Patricia J. Fontes, Hana
Gottesdiener, Jens Kofoed, Gorm Uhrenholdt and Christian Vognsen. Instituto
de Promoçao Ambiental,
Lisbon, Portugal, 1997, 252 pp.
Breiting, S. (1996).
Is there anything special about environmental education in the Nordic region?
Conflicting interests in the use of natural resources - a Nordic school developmental
project on environmental education, Nordic Council of Ministers. Nordic Publishing
House. 519: 13-17.
Breiting, S. (1995).
Towards a New Concept of Environmental Education. The Conference on the Exchange
of Promising Experiences in Environmental Eduation in Great Britain and the
Nordic countries. 11-13- November 1994, Karlslunde, Denmark, European Research
and Training Centre on Environmental Education, University of Bradford.
Schnack, K. (1995).
Democratisation, Citizenship and Action Competence.
In: Jensen, K. O.B. Larsen & S. Walker (eds.). Democracy in Schools, Citizenship
and Global Concern,
Royal Danish School of Educational Studies.
Schnack, K. (1995).
The Didactics of Challenge,
In: Stefan Hopman and Kurt Riquarts (eds.): Didaktik and/or Curriculum,
Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften an der Universität Kiel.
Breiting, Søren (1994).
Persuation or democratic participation to foster environmental activity among
citizens? Raising the Wadden Awareness. Proceedings of the first international
conference on public information and education in the Wadden Sea area, EcoMare,
Texel, the Netherlands 20-24 September 1993. Den Helder, EcoMare: 37-41.
Breiting, S.(1993):
The new generation of environmental education focus on democracy as part of
an alternative paradigm. S. 199-202 i Alternative Paradigms in Environmental
Education Research, R. Mrazek (ed.). Monographs in Environmental Education Research
VIII. The North American Association for Environmental Education. Troy.
Link: http://www.uleth.ca/edu/research/ciccte/naceer.pgs/pubpro.pgs/Alternate/directory.htm
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Key reference papers in Scandinavian language
Breiting, S., K. Hedegaard,
F. Mogensen, K. Nielsen og K. Schnack (1999).
Handlekompetence, interessekonflikter og miljøundervisning - MUVIN-projektet,
Odense Universitetsforlag 1999. Link.
Key reference papers in other languages
Breiting, S. (1997):
Hacia un nuevo concepto de educación ambiental. Carpeta informativa. Centro
National de Educacion Ambiental. Valsein-Segovia, CENEAM: 02.81-02.89. Link:
http://www.mma.es/educ/ceneam/02firmas/firmas1997/feb2.htm
Link to table: http://www.econet21.org/es/guia/escuela/soren.htm
Breiting, Søren, Eva Csobod,
Petra Lindemann-Matthies and Jürgen Mayer (1997).
Plantando Arboles. Internet http://www.mma.es:8088/ODMMA/Ceneam/O2Firmas/Firma14.htm.
Schnack, K. (1995).
Umweltbildung als politische Bildung in demokratischen Gesellschaften, In: Schleicher,
K. (Hrsg.). Umweltbewusstsein und Umweltbildung in der Europäischen Union,
Verlag Dr. R. Krämer, Hamburg.
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