Local and Global (F)actors in Environmental and Sustainability Education Policies: The Case of New York City Public Schools

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  • Author(s): Verschueren, Carine (ORCID Verschueren, Carine (ORCID 0000-0001-6318-7157)
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Environmental Education Research. 2021 27(3):402-417.
  • Publication Date:
    2021
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Research
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      16
    • Education Level:
      Early Childhood Education
      Elementary Education
      Kindergarten
      Primary Education
      Elementary Secondary Education
    • Subject Terms:
      Public Schools; Social Change; Educational Change; School Districts; Interdisciplinary Approach; Environmental Education; Sustainability; Policy Formation; Archives; Advocacy; Guidelines; Global Approach; Urban Education; Administrator Attitudes; Kindergarten; Elementary Secondary Education
    • Subject Terms:
      New York (New York)
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080/13504622.2021.1879734
    • ISSN:
      1350-4622
    • Abstract:
      Within an educational system increasingly focused on test-based accountability, how can a local education authority adopt an interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability education (ESE) policy? What local and global factors and actors shape and inform the creation of such a policy? In answering these questions, this article examines the formulation of ESE policy in the New York City Department of Education. Based on an analysis of archival documents and 20 expert interviews, the study draws on the Advocacy Coalition Framework and extends its application by adding global and social movement perspectives. In doing so this study find that external events enabled the initial enactment of the policy in 2009, while the practice and local pilots of ESE programs substantially informed the reformulation of the policy in 2012.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2021
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1288867