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Thijs Loonstra; Valentina C. Tassone; Zoë Robaey; Perry den Brok – Environmental Education Research, 2025
While environmental problems are urgent in modern society, they are especially difficult to tackle because of their normative and politically controversial nature. Universities may choose different theoretical paradigms for the teaching of environmental problems. However, limited theoretical and/or practical analysis has been undertaken of the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Models, Social Problems, Outcomes of Education
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Parra, S. Lozano; Wansink, B. G. J.; Bakker, C.; van Liere, L. M. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023
Friction in the classroom may create useful tension for teachers when they attempt to discuss sensitive topics as part of democratic learning. Due to the openness and indeterminacy of these topics, students can experience what it is like to be (political) subjects in a diverse society and become aware of other people's subjectness in a charged…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Student Participation, Risk