A warm welcome to the blog of the Centre for Media, Culture & Environmental Education (www.cmcee.org). cmcee.org provides resources for environmental educators who wish to acquire a more critical understanding of the relation between media, culture and environmental education. While the term ‘media’ refers initially to the media of mass communication, the term may also be employed to refer to any of the social contexts in which groups of people are informally and ‘nonformally’ taught about the nature of environment(s).
In keeping with this brief, this blog specializes in the topical analysis of environmental policies and practices as they relate to a variety of contexts:
- the media of mass communication, sensu stricto: especially but not only, news media, and what might be described as the ‘nature media’, viz. a group of institutions led by the National Geographic, the BBC, and Discovery Communications, which produce media outputs with an extraordinary global reach and popularity;
- environmental parks, zoos, natural history museums, science museums and related institutions, which remain important sites for environmental education;
- campaigns produced by environmental activists
- a combination of the above…
UPDATE February 23, 2009:
On February 16, 2009 the Centre for Media, Culture and Environmental Education (cmcee.org) rolled out a new website. While the graphics remain the same, we’ve added photographs and new contents. As part of the changes, this blog will have new features, including the publication of a greater variety of writings. There will still be short essays about media, culture and the environment, or media, culture and environmental education.
We hope that you will find the new website, useful. If you would like to provide feedback, please do contact cmcee.org. We tend not to publish comments, but please do feel free to use the comment function of the blog to let us know about your views.
