Acknowledgments p. vii Background and Theory Free-Choice Learning and the Environment Who is the Free-Choice Environmental Education Learner? Fostering Empathy with Wildlife: Factors Affecting Free-Choice Learning for Conservation Concer and Behavior Behavior Change Theories and Free-Choice Environmental Learning Nicole Ardoin Informing Practice From Mission to Practice Tools of Engagement: How Education and Other Social Strategies Can Engage People in Conservation Action How Can Participatory Action Research Inform Free-Choice Learning Pedagogy and Research in Environmental Education Contexts? Environmental Literacy through the Lens of Aquarium Ocean Literacy Efforts Envisioning the Future Free-Choice Environmental Learning in Practice: Research to Inform Environmental Education Practice Future Directions for Research in Free-Choice Environmental Learning The Federal Government and Free-Choice Learning References Index About the Contributors Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.