DOMED? REMISE SD 150 018 SE 023.919 AUTHOR -' McCabe, Robert II:, id, TITLE Current Issues in EnvironmentalsEducatio'. - III: Seletted Papers from the Annual Conference'of'the National Association for Environmental. Education f (6th). INSTITUTION ERIC Information Analysis Center for Science, Matheaaticse and Environmental Education, Columbus, Ohio.; National Association for Environmental Edution, Miami, Fla.. SPONS AGENCY' Nat onalInpt. of Education (DHEN), Washington, D.C., PUB DATE Nov 77 NOTE 279p. , , AVAILABLE FROM Information Reference' Center (ERIC/IRC), !be Ohio . 4 State University, 1200 Chpibers Rd., 3rd Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43212 ($5.00) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.83 HC-$15.39 Plus Postage. DESWPTORS *Conference Reports; Curriculum; *Elementary Secondary Education; Energy:. *Environaental Education; InstructiOnal Materials;. *Learning; Natural Resources; Population Education; *Ptogram Descriptions; *Values 1ABSTRACT This is the third in a series of publications utilizing papers presented at the annual conferenceof theNational Association for Environmental Education. The 29 selected papers are divided into the following categories: Energy, International Environaent, Population/Population Education, Natural Environment, 'values, Learning, and Curriculum end Prcgram. These papers prqvide information and available knowledge on.eaddespectrum/Of topics in environmental education. A listing of references is included. with each paper. 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McCabe, Editor e ERIC/SMEAC CENTER FOR SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL .EDUCATION. ...an information Centar'to organize and disseminate information and materials on science, mathematics, and environmental education to teachers, administrators, supervisors, researchers, and the public. A joint project of the College of Edusatioil and the School of Natural Resources of The ,Ohio State University and.the Educational .Resources Information 4enter of NIE. 2 I cugREprifissuEs IN ENVIRONMENTAL 1 ".EDUCATION - III Selected Papers from-the Sixth. Annual Conference of the National Association fo ,r Environmental-Education4. Edited by = Robert H. McCabe O ThOlNationtl Association for Environmental Education P. 0. Box 560931 . Miami, Florida 33156 1 4 , Pnblilhed by The ERIC Center Or Science, Mathematics,. and Environmental Education The Ohio State University -) College of Education and Schthil of Natural Resburces 1200 Chambers Road, 3rd Floor' 'Columbus,.0hio 43212 November 1977 on' -3 ti ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INFORMATION REPQR1S Environmental Education Information Reports° are issued to analyze and summarize information relatedto the teachiag and learnIng of environ- mental education- Lt is hoped' that these relitews will provide information fOr. personnel involved in deveTopmer4, ideas fot..teachers, khd-indications of trends in environmental education. Your ampments and Suggestions for this series are invited.' O 'John F# Disinger. Associate Direator Environmental Education ) o 1 'Sponsored by the Educational Resources Information 'Center of the National- Institute of Education andThe Ohio State Univgdity. This publication was prepared,pursuant to a contract with the National Institute of Education, with the cooperation of the National.Association for Environmental.Educatipn. Contractors undertaking such piojects under Government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their iudgment in professional and technical matters. Points of view or opinions do not, . therefore, necessarily represent official National Institute of Education position or policy. FOREWORD ro too . The 1977 Conference of the Natio 1 Association for EmAronman,tal lAutatiOn, April 24'-26, attracted Estes Park, Colorado more than three hundred persons with a broad ande'of interests in environmental. education. The papers that were presented covered the widest spectrum that h'as as yet been pr'esentedi'az an NAEE conference. The papers selected for inclusion-in Curfent_Issues.in Environmental Education -, III were organized into clusters, represen,tative of the ,conference. The largest clusters concern values, turriculuM andecaching/learning. Each of these groupings is comprised of a fine -tollection- of materials. In addition, there areexcellent papers on energy, internal-opal education; population - population education and the natural . environment. - This is the third in a series of annual publicationsutilizing_ papers presented at the NAEE Annual_ Conference.ThiA annual Publication_is an ongoing seri& designed to add to the informationand knowledge available concerning.environmental edutation. =Though all of the papers sUbMitted could not be included in the publieatiOn, allcontributions '-were-appraciated and most will be made avai=lable- through ERIC. The. editor takes this opportunity to recvnize the'indispensiblework of those who served as associate editors and to thetcontributorsor their professional efforts. The Association wishes to expresi its sincereAappreciation.0 the ERIC Center for Science, Mathematics, and EnvironmentalEducation for sponsoring the publication and to John Disingerkorllis cooperation. and patience. Robert H. McCabe Editor September 1927 ' -r 11, ii Or 5 .EDITOR 'Robert H. McCabe 'Miami-Dade Community College Miami; Florida s , 4 ASSOCIATE EDITORS John F. Disinger -The Ohio State University. 'Columbus, Ohio 9 Kevin C. Gottlieb Michigan State Ukivetaity, East Lansing, milhigan. Robert Marlett Tgxas Tech Uni ersity .Lubbock, T 't , Roger A. Podewell Olive-Harvey College, ChicagO, Illinois Ja5N.B., Reed National Audubon Society - .4 Boulder, Colorado Robert E. Roth The .Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Tom Tanner Cispus Environmental.Center / Randle, Wdbbington SPECIAL ASSISTANCE ! J Betty Brown Edith Heath a Miami-Dade Community College Miami -Dade Community College 0°Miami, Florida Miami; Florida Becky Kimbrough Jacqueline Lyons. Miami-Dade Cummunity College Miami-Dade Community College Miami, Florida Miami, Florida' Muriel McCloskey Lillian Malin Miami-Dade-Community Corrbge Mfami-Dadd Community College Miami, Florida Miami, Florida Jill Mangold Miami-Dade CommunityColleg%. Miami; Florida ,1.., iii 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS . ENERGY Dnergy Conservations, By Choice or By Force. 'Kevin C. Gottlieb.... G Energy Analysis-TheUltftate Criterion in Environmental Education. John H. Marean 11 14. INTERNATIONAL!t.ENVIRORENT A Look at the Environment in the Peoples Republic of Clina. Robert J. Holloway 21 t The Quantum Theoryof Environmental Education. John J. Kirk 29 POPULATION PUIATION EDUCATION Population Energy. Debra Haffner 39 Population Pressures on the Mountain Environment. Joyce Lamah 44 Population Education: Case Studies on the Implementation Process in Secondary Schools. Thelma Marie Wurzelbadhek 55. NATURAL ,ENVIRONMENT \, SequentialComparison Index: A Practical Means of Assessing Environmental Complexity. Karl E. Schwaab and Arthur...1y' Buikema, Jr 77 Wilderness PreserVation'as Anti-Prosthesis: A New Perspective on Carrying Capacity and Technology.Sam H.-Ham and William R.atton, Jr... 81 Goals and Strategies of Wildlife Biology. Gary San Julian 92 2 VALUES ' Envivbnmental Crises and the Evolution of'Human Values. John David Pais 97 Energy and Self-Actualization. Kart W. Peters 102 How piing Children View Their World:,,The Assessment .and he Implications for EE. Robert E. Horvat "When the Earth Dies, Where do we Bury TO": The Need'for Comprehensive Environmental Monitoring Indices. ,Thomas 4 Devaney Harblir. 123' . Affairs of Coriscience in Eniiironmentaf Education. John C. Miles... 130 Plumbers and Philosophers; Edward T. Clark, Jr 138 iv Q Or 7 EMPHASIDS LEARNING -'The Role of Simulation& and Games in Environmental Education. Charles 'A. Bottinelli 145 Review of Selected Instruments that Meagure Environmehtal Education Outcomes. Rodney L. oran 163 411. Teaching Toward Paradigm Shifts: DevelopingTomorrow's Environmentil Education. Roger D. Ray°and James'D. Upson 172 $ 4 Psychological-,Readiness and Environmental Education. John Towler and:Susan DittMer 179 Developing A Unique Environmental Education Program. Eugene Bammel 184 The Relationship Between Experiential Learning,Jerception, find Information Processing. Lei LanesBurrus-Bammel and Eugene Eammel 189 ,Information's Effect on Attitude: A Longitudinal Study. Lei Lane Burrus-Bammel 197 EMPHASIS - CURRICULUM AND PROGRAM - Muses, Monitors and Millennia: A Celebration of Child/ Environment Relations and Transitional Environmental Education Curricula.Herbert H. Wong 213 Project ECO - An Environmental Curriculum Opportunity. Luther L. Kiser and Kenneth E. Frazier 228 A Core:Cu'rriculum for the Environmental Design Professions. T. L. Harper and S. M. Stein 0' 234 A Case for Continuing Education: Illinois Department Of Transportatiop Environmental Awareness Program. John, A. Wiedman and Paul R. Craig 253 Bellingham 2000: A Model for Community