Centre for Research in Education and the Environment (CREE)
Publications
Please see below for examples of publications by members of the Centre:
Books

Technical and Vocational Education and Training:
An investment based approach
Stephen Gough
(2010) London: Continuum [208pp]
- Hardback Book, ISBN 978-0-826-43484-5, £70

Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies:
Learning to Live with the Future
Stephen Gough, Andy Stables
(2008) London: Routledge [148pp]
- Hardback Book, ISBN 978-0-415-95582-9, £63
- Electronic Book, ISBN 978-0-203-89404-0

Participation and learning:
Perspectives on Education and the Environment
Reid, A., Jensen, B.B., Nikel, J. & Simovska, V. (Eds)
(2008) Springer [346pp]
- Hardback Book, ISBN 978-1-4020-6415-9, 129,95 euro

Higher Education and Sustainable Development:
Paradox and possibility
Stephen Gough and William Scott
(2007) London: Routledge [208pp]
- Hardback Book, ISBN 978-0-415-41652-8, £75.00

Key Issues in Sustainable Development and Learning
A Critical Review (Book of Readings)
Edited by: William Scott, Stephen Gough
(2003) Taylor and Francis [288pp]
- Hardback Book, ISBN 0415276497, £75.00
- Paperback Book, ISBN 0415276500, £24.99

Sustainable Development and Learning.
Framing the Issues
William Scott, Stephen Gough
(2003) Taylor and Francis [192pp]
- Hardback Book, ISBN 0415276470, £70.00
- Paperback Book, ISBN 0415276489, £19.99
Papers
Barratt Hacking E (1996) Novice teachers and their geographical persuasions International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 5 77-86
Barratt R & Barratt Hacking E (2000) Changing my locality: conceptions of the future Teaching Geography 25 17-22
Bishop KN & Scott WAH (1998) Deconstructing Action Competence: developing a case for a more scientifically-attentive environmental education Public Understanding of Science 7 225 - 236
Fien J, Scott WAH & Tilbury D (2001) Education and Conservation: lessons from an evaluation Environmental Education Research 7(4) 379-395
Fisher JA (2001) The demise of fieldwork as an integral part of science education in schools: a victim of cultural change and political pressure Pedagogy, Culture and Society 9(1) 75-96
Gough SR & Reid AR (2000) Guidelines for reporting and evaluating qualitative research: what are the alternatives? Environmental Education Research 6(1) 59-92
Gough SR & Scott WAH (2001) Curriculum Development and Sustainable Development: practices, institutions and literacies Educational Philosophy & Theory 33(2) 137-152
Gough SR, Scott WAH & Stables AWG (2000) Beyond O'Riordan: balancing anthropocentrism and ecocentrism International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 9(1) 36-47
Gough, S and Stables, A (2008) Sustainability, Security, Liberalism, Learning: framing the issues, in, Gough, S and Stables, A (eds) Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies: Learning to Live with the Future, London: Routledge (Social and Political Thought series)
Gough SR, Walker KE & Scott WAH (2001) Lifelong Learning: Towards a Theory of Practice for Formal and Non-Formal Environmental Education and Training Canadian Journal of Environmental Education 6 178-196
Hindson J, Dillon J, Gough S, Scott W, & Teamey K (2001) Mainstreaming environmental education; A report with recommendations for DFID Field Studies Council, Shrewsbury
Reid AD (2000) How does a geography teacher contribute to pupils' environmental education? Canadian Journal of Environmental Education 5 327-344
Scott WAH (2002) Co-evolutionary Change Strategies for Sustainable Development: towards an analysis of significant factors International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 10(4) in press
Scott WAH & Reid AD (1998) The Revisioning of Environmental Education - a critical analysis of recent policy shifts in England and Wales Educational Review 50(3) 213 - 223
Scott WAH & Reid AD (2001) Exploring our responsibilities: a critical commentary on education, sustainability and learning Environmental Education 66 23-24
Stables, A. (2008) The Unnatural Nature of Nature and Nurture, Studies in Philosophy and Education (special edition, Environmental Concern and the Transformation of Knowledge)
Stables, A. (2008) Can ‘Sensibility’ be Re-‘Associated’? Reflections on T.S.Eliot and the possibility of educating for a sustainable environment, Ethics and Education
Stables, A. (2006) From Semiosis to Social Policy: the less trodden path, Signs Systems Studies 34/1, 121-134
Stables, A. (2004) Can Education Save the World? A response to David A. Gruenewald, Curriculum Inquiry 34/2, 233-240
Stables, A. (2001) Who Drew the Sky? Conflicting Assumptions in Environmental Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory 33/2, 245-256
Stables AWG & Bishop KN (2001) Weak and strong conceptions of environmental literacy: implications for environmental education, Environmental Education Research 7(1) 89-97
Stables, A and Gough, S (2006) Towards a Semiotic Theory of Choice and of Learning Educational Theory 56/3, 271-285
Stables AWG & Scott WAH (2002) The Quest for Holism in Education for Sustainable Development, Environmental Education Research 8(1) 53-60
Stables AWG & Scott WAH (2001) Post-Humanist Liberal Pragmatism: environmental education out of modernity, Journal of Philosophy of Education 35(2) 269-280
Stables AWG & Scott WAH (1999) Environmental Education and the Discourses of Humanist Modernity: redefining critical environmental literacy, Educational Philosophy & Theory 31(2) 145 - 155
Vare P and Scott WAH (2007) Learning for a change: exploring the relationship between education and sustainable development
. Journal of Education for Sustainable Development 1(2)
Reports and Presentations
William Scott's report on research for the South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition (2010) Developing the Sustainable School: thinking the issues through ![]()
Published by the Sustainable schools and Academies Trust (2008): Leading Sustainable Schools and Raising Standards ![]()
William Scott, Environmental Education Research: thirty years on from Tbilisi
Keynote Address to the 4th World Environmental Education Congress, Durban, July 2007
Reid, A, Nikel, J and Scott, W (2006) Indicators for Education for Sustainable Development, Conference Report, Anglo-German Foundation
CREE's submission
to the The Sustainable Development Strategy Inquiry (2004)
CREE's submission to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee's enquiry on ESD (2003) - full government report here
William Scott's talk at the CEE November 2003 policy forum, Sustainable Development, Policy and Learning: exploring relationships ![]()
William Scott's address
to the Research Commission, NAAEE, 32nd Annual Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, on the role of peer review in assuring research quality, 2003
CREE and CEE's external evaluation report for DfES on Growing Schools - The Innovation Fund Projects (2002 - 2003)
Professor William Scott's Inaugural lecture, 2002, Sustainability and Learning: what role for the curriculum? ![]()
Report to DfEE/QCA, SDEP Key Concepts Report to QCA
(1998)
CREE Doctoral Theses
Stephen Sterling, Whole Systems Thinking as a Basis for Paradigm Change in Education: Explorations in the Context of Sustainability
Seyoung Hwang, Teachers’ stories of environmental education: blurred boundaries of professionalism, identity and curriculum

