Educating for Environmental Citizenship in Non-formal Frameworks for Secondary Level Youth

Abstract

and Frans Van Dam 14.1 Characteristics of Non-formal Education Promoting the Attributes of an Environmental Citizen For the purpose of this chapter, it is valuable to briefly distinguish between nonformal and informal education-terms that are often used interchangeably. Nonformal and informal learning takes place in out-of-school environments and settings (e.g. libraries, exhibits, museums, science centres, zoos, aquaria, botanical gardens and wildlife-based environments, community centres and organisations, etc.).

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