International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Editors: A/Prof John Lidstone, Queensland University of Technology and Prof Joseph P. Stoltman, Western Michigan University
Book Review Editor: Dr Sarah Witham Bednarz, Texas A & M University
Editorial Assistant: Donna Bennett, Australia
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Volume: 9 Number: 1 Page: 36–47
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Beyond O’Riordan: Balancing Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism
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Stephen Gough, William Scott and Andrew Stables
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Two papers about environmentalism by O’Riordan (1989, 1990) have been particularly influential in the development of conceptualisations of environmental education (Fien, 1993a; Sterling, 1993). The
present authors argue that O’Riordan’s analysis takes insufficient account of cultural pluralism, misplaces socialist positions within its overall conceptual frame, and is generally incomplete
by virtue of its failure to incorporate a position which balances the anthropocentric and the ecocentric. An alternative view of environmentalism, which may contribute to a basis for thinking about environmental
education, is outlined.
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