Description of Warfield’s application of Interpretive Structural Modeling to environmental learning concepts while he served as a project director of an environmental education project for the U.S. Office of Environmental Education. Compares the conclusions of previous educational research with his own recently developed educational methodology and argues that his approach is much more effective. Proceeds to cover the Options Field and Options Profile methods and show how they may be used with the help of a trained facilitator, to enable effective participatory planning and creation of usable environmental educational systems at the regional level. At the time he gave this talk, in 1979, his Final Report for the project had not yet been printed. The Final Report describes above methodology in full; it was published under the title: Designs for the Future of Environmental Education (1980 ) Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Presented at the conference for Talent Development for Environmental Careers (TDEC) held at University of District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. 21 August 1979.
A paper offprint of full text is at Fenwick Library, Box 05/20, C0016, SCRC, George Mason University Libraries. The TDEC Conference Proceedings volume is listed with ERIC Number ED220271 with a 1981 publisher Information Dynamics, Inc., 111 Claybrook Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20902 ($15.00).
This material was shipped to Fenwick Library Special Collections, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA on 23 October 2000. See also “Designs For the Future of Environmental Education: Energy, Environment Economy, Education, Ethics. USGPO No. 337-840/9216 (1981).”
