Abstract
State, civil society and private sector partnerships play a crucial role in fostering a sustainable society. This case study explores the role of school-state-community-civil society-business partnerships in promoting environmental citizenship as a major component of education for sustainability (EfS), and social capital as a new outcome, from a school’s perspective. The findings indicate that the school succeeded in establishing and maintaining long-term connections with diverse actors. Both the connections and the actors promoted EfS and social capital within the school and community. School-state-community partnerships cultivated the students’ and community’s environmental citizenship, and school-business partnerships improved the physical infrastructure of the School, and also assisted the promotion of EfS in the school. Additionally, school-business partnerships were hard to sustain in long term.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 416-433 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Journal of Environmental Education |
Volume | 51 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
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- actors in the community
- education for sustainability (EfS
- environmental citizenship
- school partnerships
- social capital