Alan Reid
Professor of Education (Education; Curriculum and pedagogy; Education policy, sociology and philosophy; Education systems; Environmental education curriculum and pedagogy; Geography education curriculum and pedagogy; History and philosophy of education; Teacher education and professional development of educators; Secondary education; Higher education)
Melbourne, Australia
Alan Reid is a Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University.
Alan's research interests focus on educators' thinking and practice in environmental and sustainability education, and traditions, capacities and issues in associated theory, research and policy.
Applications of this work include editing the 4 volume reference work series, Environmental Education (Routledge Major Works), entries to the Oxford Bibliography on Environmental Education, and working as editor-in-chief of Environmental Education Research.
Examples of recent work include education research, policy and practice development activities that address the climate emergency through education; the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, e.g. Mission 4.7 on education for sustainable development and Challenge 6.1 on #generationrestoration; and scientists' warnings about the environmental crisis.
Alan is also an associate editor of Journal of Curriculum Studies. He applies his broader interests to this area as illustrated in the collection, Curriculum and Environmental Education: Perspectives, Priorities and Challenges, and contributions to journals, textbooks and handbooks on related areas (e.g. geography education, marine education, science education, climate education).
Alan is an affiliate of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, a member of the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub, leads the Education, Environment and Sustainability Faculty Research Group, and contributes to the Science Education in the Anthropocene Impact Lab.
He was the Faculty's Associate Dean - Education (2012-2017) and Associate Dean - Academic Strategy (2017-2022), and has served on Monash University's Academic Board (2022-2024).
Until 2012, he worked at the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment, University of Bath, where he completed his PhD in 1998. Alan is active in a range of environmental education research activities and networks, primarily in Europe, North America and Australasia. Most notably, these include the Global Environmental Education Partnership alongside a wide range of special interest groups, networks and events in the field, e.g. as an Honorary Professor at UCL's Institute of Education and Society, Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment and affiliate of its Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education; a member of the ECER Network in Research on Environmental and Sustainability Education; and a Scientific Committee member of the World Environmental Education Congress.
Alan's commitments and interests in teaching and graduate research supervision principally focus on environmental and sustainability education, and research approaches and professional inquiry in education.
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Publications
- Systems literacy: towards a conspectus and model for environmental and sustainability education
- Science, the environment and citizenship: Teaching values at the minstead study centre
- Climate Change Education and Research
- Key questions about climate change education and research: ‘essences’ and ‘fragrances’
- Aesthetic experiences in the Cerrado (Brazilian savanna): contributions to environmental education practice and research
- Scoping reviews: Their development and application in environmental and sustainability education research
- Reviews of research on the attitude–behavior relationship and their implications for future environmental education research
- Afterword
- Training early childhood teachers for sustainability: towards a ‘learning experience of a different kind’
- Synthesis of research in higher education for sustainable development
- Environment and Education
- ‘Researchers are experienced readers’: on recognition, aspiration and obligation
- Sustainable schools programmes: what influence on schools and how do we know?
- Environmental Learning
- Going with/against the flow: the challenges of an authentic marine science education
- Best Practice In Marine Environmental Education – The Challenge To Make It Authentic And Immersive
- Colombia’s national policy of environmental education: a critical discourse analysis
- Investing in research and evaluation to improve practice is a direct way of showing we can act now for environmental education
- Curriculum and environmental education
- Shades of criticality in health and wellbeing education
- Science education in informal settings
- Sustainability in engineering education: A review of learning outcomes
- Going with/against the flow
- Environmental Education: Critical Concepts in the Environment
- Blank, blind, bald and bright spots in environmental education research
- Environmental education research - milestones and celebrations
- School Policy Development and Creation
- Changing Context, Shifting Values? Science, The Environment and Citizenship at Minstead Study Centre 12 Years On
- Learning to accept responsibility: the true meaning of Education for Sustainable Development?
- Climate change education and research: possibilities and potentials versus problems and perils?
- Pyropedagogies: Climate change education and research
- Declaring a Climate Emergency
- SYNTHESIS OF RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- 'Researchers are experienced readers': on recognition, aspiration and obligation (vol 22, pg 422, 2016)
- Beyond the matter: collaborative call-and-response learning with bioplastic and Padlet
- Teaching about climate change in the midst of ecological crisis: Responsibilities, challenges, and possibilities
- Measuring environmental locus of control: An analysis of instruments and their psychometric properties
- ResourceSmart Schools – Options for Research, Evaluation and Monitoring
- ResourceSmart Schools Review
- Environment and Education
- The roots and routes of environmental and sustainability education policy research
- Environmental Learning
- Issues in case-study methodology in investigating environmental and sustainability issues in higher education
- Connecting gender equality with sustainability in early childhood: educators understandings in Victoria, Australia
- Researching Environmental and Sustainability Education Policy: Slumbers and Awakenings
- Dealing with global environmental change: the design and validation of the GEC attitude scale
- Promoting an environmental education project: the eco-picture diary in Yokohama City, Japan
- Scientists’ warnings and the need to reimagine, recreate, and restore environmental education
- Addressing the climate emergency with educational approaches: a bibliometric analysis of climate change education scholarship
- The ‘Butterfly Effect’: Identifying pathways for sustainability transformation through social processes of disaster resilience
- A Companion to Research in Education: Introduction
- How can mobile SMS communication support and enhance a first year undergraduate learning environment?
- Investigating children's physical activity and play in green school grounds: Reflections on methods and initial results from pilot work
- Editorial: Experiencing environment and place through children’s literature
- Characterising Research in Education: Troubling Characteristics and Caricature
- Conceptualising Research in Education: Challenging Concepts and Conceptions
- Differentiating and Evaluating Conceptions and Examples of Participation in Environment-Related Learning
- Environmental education research: will the ends outstrip the means?
- 'Telling tales’ of sustainable development in education
- Openings for researching environment and place in children's literature: Ecologies, potentials, realities and challenges
- Researching education and the environment: retrospect and prospect
- Environmental education in three German‐speaking countries: tensions and challenges for research and development
- Student teachers' learning about subject matter and pedagogy in education for sustainable development
- Producing knowledge and (de)constructing identities: a critical commentary on environmental education and its research
- Environmental education research: towards and beyond passionate, scholarly conversation
- ResourceSmart schools research project
- Environmental Teacher Education
- Normalising catastrophe in environmental discourse: on educational values, responses and critical imagination
- Thesis summaries: an innovation, introduction, guidelines and invitation
- Participation and Learning: Developing Perspectives on Education and the Environment, Health and Sustainability
- Editorial: Critical Pedagogies of Place
- Environmental Education Debate
- Researching Education and the Environment: Retrospect and Prospect
- Participation and Learning: Perspectives on Education and the Environment, Health and Sustainability
- Disrupting privilege, identity, and meaning: a reflective dance of environmental education
- Critical pedagogy, ecoliteracy, and planetary crisis: the ecopedagogy movement
- Identifying Needs in Environmental Education Research
- Handbooks of Environmental Education Research: For Further Reading and Writing
- Understanding Others, Understanding Ourselves: Engaging in Constructive Dialogue About Process in Doctoral Study in (Environmental) Education
- Handbooks of Environmental Education Research For Further Reading and Writing
- Renewing the public and the role of research in education
- ResourceSmart schools research project
- Conceptualising research in education: challenging concepts and conceptions
- Characterising research in education: troubling characteristics and caricature
- Identifying needs in environmental education research
- Handbooks of environmental education research: for further reading and writing
- Experiencing Environment and Place through Children's Literature
- Environmental Education Research (Special Issue: Experiencing Environment and Place through Children's Literature)
- Experiencing Environment and Place through Children's Literature
- Student teachers' learning about subject matter and pedagogy in education for sustainable development
- Environmental education research: will the ends outstrip the means?
- Researching Education and the Environment: Retrospect and Prospect
- Introduction
- Researching education and the environment: retrospect and prospect
- Science, the environment and citizenship
- How can mobile SMS communication support and enhance a first year undergraduate learning environment?
- Investigating children's physical activity and play in green school grounds: Reflections on methods and initial results from pilot work
- Environmental Teacher Education
- Preface
- Preface
- The role of responsibility in making sense of ‘Education for Sustainable Development’: notes from a tri-country study of student teachers’ understanding(s) of education, sustainable development and ESD
- Coursework in Geography: Student Voices, Teacher Choices
- Exploring our Responsibilities: a critical commentary on education, sustainability and learning
- Teaching Environmental Matters Through the National Curriculum
- SCAA’s revisioning process ‘Teaching Environmental Matters in the National Curriculum’
- Geography and the New Agenda: Citizenship, PSHE and Sustainable Development in the Secondary Curriculum
- What is doing your bit?
- Geography and the New Agenda: Citizenship, PSHE and Sustainable Development in the Primary Curriculum
- Sensing Environmental Education Research
- Breaking new ground? Reflections on greening school grounds as sites of ecological, pedagogical and social transformation
- Developing environmental awareness through literature and media education: Curriculum development in the context of teachers' practice
- Researching education and the environment: an introduction
- Exploring values in sustainable development
- Our World—Our Reponsibility: Environmental education—a practical guide
- Discussing Environmental Education Research: how do we speak with each other?
- The Revisioning of Environmental Education: a critical analysis of recent policy shifts in England and Wales
- Environmental Education Research as Profession, as Science, as Art and as Craft: Implications for guidelines in qualitative research
- Discussing the Possibility of Education for Sustainable Development
- Guidelines for Reporting and Evaluating Qualitative Research: What are the alternatives?
- Teaching about tourism and traffic and the sustainability of a city
- Learning from coursework: student voices, teacher choices
- Valuing and utilizing traditional ecological knowledge: tensions in the context of education and the environment
- Signposts in a Strange Land: a response to Peter Posch
- Reading a Critical Review of Evidence: Notes and queries on research programmes in environmental education
- Learning from Coursework in English and Geography
- Issues in case‐study methodology in investigating environmental and sustainability issues in higher education: towards a problem‐based approach?
- Educating for sustainability/Umweltbildung und Agenda 21/Former a` la Durabilite´
- Sustainable development and environmental change
- Learning from GCSE coursework
- Environmental change, sustainable development and citizenship
- Growing schools: The innovation fund projects (2002-2003). An external evaluation
- Traditional ecological knowledge for learning with sustainability in mind
- Indicators for Education for Sustainable Development: a report on perspectives, challenges and progress
- The contribution of geography teaching to pupils’ environmental education: Methodological considerations and issues for researching teachers’ thinking about practice
- How Does a Geography Teacher Contribute to Pupils' Environmental Education? Unweaving the Web Between Theorising and Data
- On the Possibility of Education for Sustainable Development
- Natural Capital in education and economics: predicaments and potential
- Cross-Curricularity in the National Curriculum: reflections on metaphor and pedagogy in citizenship education through school geography
- Life's Rich Tapestry
- The content and status of cross-curricular objectives in the national curriculum
- Developing environmental education through geography
- Environmental and Sustainability Education Policy
- How does the geography teacher contribute to pupils environmental education?
- Environmental Education Research
- Studies in Education and Environment
- Engaging and Learning with the Outdoors – The Final Report of the Outdoor Classroom in a Rural Context Action Research Project
- Sustainable Development in the UK: exploring education initiatives since Rio
- Education and sustainable development in the UK: An exploration of progress since Rio
- Environmental change and sustainable development
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