title: Serving the public good.
abstract: This discussion foregrounds four key issues engaged by the articles presented in this special issue: the unique challenges and opportunities of environmental education evaluation, how to think well about the evaluation approaches and purposes that best match this domain, evaluation capacity building in environmental education and action, and accountability and activist pressures on contemporary evaluation. Environmental education evaluators are encouraged to consider positioning their work in service of the public good.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, 230C Education, 1310 South Sixth St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA. jcgreene@illinois.edu
authors.forename: Jennifer C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Greene
mesh_terms: D057191:Capacity Building; D004463:Ecology / Q000193:education*; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*