Foreword Frank B. Golley, Past President, INTECOL Preface Monica Hale 1 The role of ecology in education: an Australian perspective - Ian Robottom 2 Ecology and environmental education in schools in Britain - Monica Hale and Jackie Hardie 3 Environmental education in the primary school sciencecurriculum in Uganda - Christopher Acar 4 The place of ecology in adult education - Peter A. Thomas 5 New opportunities for ecology education in the United States - Alan R. Berkowitz 6 Ecology education and field studies: historical trends and some present-day influences in Britain - Stephen Tilling 7 Field studies as a technique for environmental education in developed and developing nations - Walter D.S. Leal Filho 8 Learning about ecology through contact with vegetation - Margarete R. Harvey 9 Learning through landscapes - Eileen Adams 10 Ecology and environmental education in the urban environment - Monica Hale 11 Ecological concepts as a basis to environmental education in Indonesia - Mohamad Soerjani 12 The present status of environmental education in Japan - Masahito Yoshida 13 Ecological studies between schools in Europe and Scandinavia: the benefits to the curriculum of working across national boundaries - David Shirley 14 Creating a climate for conservation in West Africa - Ken Smith Index