Supporting youth to develop environmental citizenship within/against a neoliberal context

In response to the enormity of global environmental concerns, environmental education scholars contend that an educational aim of environmental education should be to develop students’ civic capacities and dispositions to engage as participatory citizens1 in relation to environmental issues and concerns (Chawla and Cushing 2007; Jensen and Schnack 2006; Schusler et al. 2009). This is often justified due to the seriousness of environmental concerns and their basis in human activity (Jensen and Schnack 2006).