ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: INTERPRETATIONS AND PERCEPTIONS
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How can we address the challenges inherent in the role and relationship that humans have with nature? I say ‘we’ because I hold the view that it should take a ‘village’ to resolve the challenges related to nature and the environment. When all community members are heard, included, and supported, everyone has an opportunity to learn from the journeys of lived experiences. The second question is how we should relate to nature in the third and fourth decades of the twenty-first century. Should human beings leave nature entirely alone or should we involve ourselves in nature as never before. This article investigates these questions in juxtaposition with the idea of nature as teacher.
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