Teaching students to make better decisions about the environment: lessons from the decision sciences.(Reports & Research)

ABSTRACT: individual of the fundamental goals of environmental education (EE) is to equip learners with the skills to make more contemplative decisions about environmental issues. Many examples of environmental and science education curricula work to address this goal by dint of providing students with up-to-date information about a myriad of environmental issues from a variety of scientific disciplines. As noted by the agency of previous researchers in EE an emphasis upon scientific information, however, does not help to vanquish many of the barriers to improved decision making. To help learners become better ...