This paper presents findings from a research study exploring the effectiveness of three environmental education programs. The first was an interpretive program where visitors learned to safely interact with and 'pet' bees (control group), the second was the same interpretive program with the addition of post-visit action resources (interactive…

In the first part of this article I propose a conceptual framework--based on the deficit, public debate and co-production of knowledge models articulated by (Callon, 1999)--with which to examine students' appropriation of de socioscientific issues (SSI). The second part of this article presents the way a group of three…

Contrasts current conceptions of lifelong education, focused on democratization and restructuring of educational systems, with lifelong learning, which views learners as consumers of educational opportunities. Compares the purposes of learning for active citizenship with learning for the global economy. Addresses the role of technology and the…