Dr. Rupu Gupta, Building Community, Part 2

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This week we return to our conversation with Dr. Rupu Gupta, conservation psychologist at New Knowledge Organization whose research focuses on inclusion and equity in the environmental field.

Last week, Dr. Gupta talked about community building. Part of our conversation centered around the paper “Practitioners’ perspectives on the purpose of environmental education.”

If you read this paper, it becomes clear that the field of environmental education (EE) is struggling to answer the question, “What’s it for?”

Today we take a brief look at this paper. In this paper, Dr. Gupta and her colleagues answer this big question:

How do North American environmental education practitioners (both from formal and non-formal institutions) think about their work?

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