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Their aim, in part, is to provide students with knowledge of environmental issues from a variety of scientific perspectives so that the students can make up their own minds on these vital issues. This is what I call the promise, or intent, of environmental education and the leading documents in the discipline reflect this intent.  \nI agree with these good intentions. Indeed, much of the current debate is not about intent, but rather the performance of environmental education. In other words, when children receive environmental education in the classroom based on curriculum materials or textbooks, or when they go to the school library to check out books about the environment, do they receive information which lives up to this promise or intent? The research record shows that they do not. There is a big gap between intent and performance when students are taught about environmental issues. This paper discusses my efforts to explore and define this gap and discusses my ideas for narrowing it.  \nRésumé  \nLes éducateurs professionnels du domaine de l'environnement font la promotion d'une éducation de qualité basée sur des standards pédagogiques de haut niveau. Leur but, en partie, consiste à fournir aux élèves, au sujet des controverses environnementales, des connaissances qui proviennent de diverses perspectives scientifiques afin que ceux-ci puissent se construire une opinion personnelle au sujet deces controverses fondamentales. Ceci correspond à ce que j'appelle la promesse ou l'intention de l'éducation relative à  \nCanadian Journal of Environmental Education, 3, Spring 1998 9  \nl'environnement et les documents importants du domainereflètent cette intention.  \nJe suis d'accord avec ces bonnes intentions. Naturellement, une grande partie du débat actuel ne porte pas sur l'intention mais plutôt sur la performance de l'éducation relative à l'environnement. En d'autres mots, quand les enfants sont éduqués à l'environnement, à partir de matérielpédagogique ou de volumes scolaires, ou quand ils vont à la bibliothèque pour regarder dans des livres au sujet del'environnement, est-ce qu'ils recoivent une information qui soit à la hauteur de cette promesse ou intention? Les résultats de recherche démontrent le contraire. Il existe donc une lacune importante entre l'intention et la performance quand les élèves sont éduqués aux controverses environnementales. Dans cet article, j'explore, je définis cette lacune et je propose des idées pour l'atténuer.  \nAs with many disciplines, the promise of environmental education is different from the actual performance of it. Without good output measures and a constant attention to feedback from the field, any discipline experiences a gap between the promise, or good intentions, of its leaders, and the actual performance by grassroots practitioners. The promise, or good intentions, of the field are represented in the key documents established by the discipline.  \nThe North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) recently published its Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence (1996), which provides environmental educators with characteristics of quality environmental education materials. The first section provides guidance on the “Fairness and Accuracy” of materials. It states that quality environmental education materials must present factual material in “language appropriate for education rather than for propagandizing” and “materials should encourage learners to explore different perspectives and form their own opinions”(p. 5, 6) .  \nIn addition, one of the most authoritative environmental education curriculum guides, A Guide to Curriculum Planning in Environmental Education,(Engleson and Yockers, 1994) underscores this theme","cbCaiqsUd7G35fRU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqsUd7G35fRU","pdf",183365,18,"English","# Abstract\n## Promise vs. Performance\n## Evidence of the Gap\n## Guidance from Key Curriculum Documents\n## Fairness, Accuracy, and Learner Perspectives\n## Practical Questioning for Responsible Action","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper call the “promise” of environmental education?\",\"answer\":\"It is the intent to provide students with high-quality knowledge of environmental issues from multiple scientific perspectives so they can form their own judgments.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper describe the main problem with current environmental education?\",\"answer\":\"The issue is a gap between the stated intent and the actual performance delivered through curriculum materials and textbooks.\"},{\"question\":\"Which qualities do key environmental education materials emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"They stress fairness and accuracy, using language appropriate for education rather than propagandizing, and encouraging learners to explore different perspectives and form their own opinions.\"}]","Environmental Education: Promise and Performance | PDF",1792084561,45]