Is Green Education Blue or Red? State-Level Environmental Education Program Development Through the Lens of Red- and Blue-State Politics
Is Green Education Blue or Red? State-Level Environmental Education Program Development Through the Lens of Red- and Blue-State Politics
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绿色教育是蓝色还是红色？
DOI：
10.3200/joee.40.3.52-62
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发表时间：
2009
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D. Abbot
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作者：
Richard Craig Crouch;D. Abbot
长期以来，环境教育工作者一直在处理有关环境问题的教学实践是试图将自由议程引入课堂课程的指控。然而，传统的共和党州和传统的民主党州在州一级的环境教育（EE）计划制度化方面都是国家的领导者和落后者。由于在EE政治中自由主义偏见的指控的政治力量，重要的是研究人员试图以某种有意义的方式确定这种指控的准确性。作者应用定量统计方法对这个问题，并发现，在一般情况下，有没有显着差异的程度之间的国家级EE计划活动的民主党国家和共和党国家。简而言之，一个州的政党关系不是该州EE计划活动的可靠预测因素。因此，证据并不支持EE仅仅是一项自由事业的说法。
Environmental educators have long dealt with the charge that the practice of teaching about environmental issues is an attempt to introduce a liberal agenda into the classroom curriculum. However, traditionally Republican states and traditionally Democratic states are both among the nation's leaders and laggards in institutionalizing environmental education (EE) programs at the state level. Because of the political power of the charge of liberal bias in EE politics, it is important for researchers to try to determine the veracity of this charge in some meaningful way. The authors applied quantitative statistical methods to this issue and found that, in general, there were not significant differences among the degrees of state-level EE program activity between Democratic states and Republican states. In short, the political party affiliation of a given state is not a reliable predictor of that state's EE program activities. Thus, the evidence does not support the claim that EE is solely a liberal undertaking.