Science: An unreliable friend to environmental education?

The roots and routes of environmental and sustainability education policy research

“…Also the field of science studies offers valuable insights that are addressed in the articles of, for instance, Stables (1998) and Ashley (2000). Acknowledging too that science cannot offer a monological 'truth' that allows escape from the responsibility to have to make choices, highlights the importance of moving beyond instrumental approaches in ESE practice, policy and research.…”

“…Whereas Sund and Öhman question a universal ethical foundation for dealing with environmental and sustainability issues, Ashley (2000) problematizes an absolute conception of scientific 'truth' in this respect. In his article about the uneasy relationship between science and environmental education, he discusses the powerful yet provisional nature of scientific truth.…”

An exploration of sustainability change agents as facilitators of nonformal learning: mapping a moving and intertwined landscape

“…Taking a political perspective, change agency practices cannot be reduced to value-free implementation of the proper techno-scientific solutions for unambiguously defined problems. Rather, it is a matter of engaging with the multidynamic complexity of wicked problems, including tensions between stability and change, short term and long term, local and global, rich and poor, etc., without certain foundations based on uncontested scientifically true solutions (Ashley 2000) or universal ethical guidelines (Sund and Öhman 2014).…”

In the neighbourhood of uncertainty : poststructuralisms and environmental education

“…SpecificaUy, this tracing wUl be constmcted from die works presented by Adams (2001), Ashley (2000), Diduck (1999), Gough and Scott (2001), Hardy (1996Hardy ( , 1999aHardy ( , 1999b, die Panel for Education for Sustainable Development (1998), Rosenbaum and Bressers (2000), and Scott (2001). Despite this Umited domain, considerable variation exists between these theorisations.…”

“…The interest demonstrated in uncertainty by positivists and postpositivists has been clakned to indicate the adoption of a humbler stance by the scientific community with respect to the Umitations of scientific method and scientific knowledge (Ashley, 2000). This adoption of a humbler stance, however, is highly Development, 1998;Scott, 2001).…”