ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the major constraints programmes for environmental education are likely to face. It appeared to be widely assumed at the Environment Workshop that approaches to teaching about environmental concerns that have been found to be successful either in formal schooling in Western countries or in non-formal, community-oriented projects in the Third World could with little modification be transplanted into Third World schools. While the rhetoric is one of the school supporting the interests and aspirations of the community, the irony is that parental aspirations are more usually directed at using the school to promote children out of the community. They also involved classroom teachers and other practitioners in order to provide a degree of realism to the discussions that is usually absent. With a conference on the aims of Science and Technology education safely behind them, the organisers of the Bangalore conference invited papers providing case-studies of practice.
