In this important intervention, change-agent Marianne E. Krasny challenges the knowledge-attitudes-behavior pathway that underpins much of environmental education practice; i.e., the assumption that environmental knowledge and attitudes lead to environmental behaviors. Krasny shows that certain types of knowledge are more likely than others to influence behaviors, and that generally it is more effective to work with existing attitudes than to try to change them. The chapters expand the purview of potential outcomes of environmental education beyond knowledge and attitudes to include nature connectedness, sense of place, efficacy, identity, norms, social capital, youth assets, and individual wellbeing.Advancing Environmental Education Practice also shows how, by constructing theories of change for their environmental education programs, environmental educators can target specific intermediate outcomes likely to lead to environmental behaviors and collective action, and plan activities to achieve those intermediate outcomes. In some cases, directly engaging program participants in the desired behavior or collective action can lead to changes in efficacy, sense of place, and other intermediate outcomes, which in turn foster future environmental actions. Finally, Advancing Environmental Education Practice shares twenty-four surveys that assess changes in environmental behaviors and intermediate outcomes, and provides guidelines for qualitative evaluations.Table of contentsPreface IntroductionPart I GETTING STARTED1. Theory of Change2. EvaluationPart II ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR ACTION OUTCOMES3. Environment, Sustainability, and Climate Change4. Environmental Behaviors5. Collective Environmental ActionPart III INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES6. Knowledge and Thinking7. Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes8. Nature Connectedness9. Sense of Place10. Efficacy11. Identity12. Norms13. Social Capital14. Positive Youth Development15. Health and Well-BeingConclusion. Resilience: Adaptation and TransformationAppendixReferencesPermissions for Survey Instruments in the AppendixIndex

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